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From: "Jane Houlihan, EWG Action Fund"
Subject: FW: Take action: Sign our sunscreen petition to the FDA
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:15:20 -0400 (EDT)
To: proclus@gnu-darwin.org
Reply-To: ewg@ewg.org Dear Michael L., Thank you for joining us in demanding that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration keep inadequate and potentially harmful sunscreens off the shelves. We are meeting with the FDA soon and are so close to having 50,000 signatures to show that there is overwhelming support for regulating sunscreens -- we only need 12,278 more signatures by midnight tonight. Here are three things you can do right now to help us spread the word: :: Forward this email to your friends and family and ask them to click here to sign our petition by midnight tonight, http://tinyurl.com/684pupc!
:: Share on Facebook: It's inexcusable that the U.S. FDA has stalled on the release of sunscreen safety regulations for 33 years. So I just told them to start protecting consumers with sunscreen safety regulations now! Join me, it's easy (thx, EWG Action Fund!): http://bit.ly/ipZp8H
:: Tweet it: I just told the US FDA to finally issue sunscreen safety regulations. 33 yrs is too long to let us burn. Speak up NOW: http://bit.ly/ipZp8H Four of five sunscreens analyzed in EWG's Sunscreen Guide don't do the job. This is too important for the FDA to wait another minute. Sincerely, Jane Houlihan
Senior Vice President for Research, EWG Action Fund ----------Forwarded Message----------
TO: Jane Houlihan
FROM: Ken Cook
SUBJECT LINE: Take action: Sign our sunscreen petition to the FDA ------------------------------------------------------------------------
EWG Action Fund www.ewg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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published by the EWG Action Fund
Dear Jane, In 1978, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began to develop its first-ever sunscreen safety regulations. Thirty-three years later, the job still isn't done. That's outrageous. The FDA hasn't protected us from the sunscreen industry's false claims or use of potentially hazardous ingredients. But we know you care, which is why EWG has just released its fifth annual Sunscreen Guide. You should have the best information possible to help you choose products that will protect you and your family from burns and skin cancer and keep you safer in the sun. Since there are no regulations, the industry doesn't have to verify that its sunscreens work or provide adequate UVA protection or even check its "waterproof" claims. I need you to stand with me today in telling the FDA that it's more than time to implement the proposed regulations. Please join us by midnight June 9 -- before we deliver your signatures to the FDA! Click here to sign EWG Action Fund's petition demanding the FDA implement its proposed sunscreen regulations and keep dangerous products from making it onto store shelves, http://tinyurl.com/64t84ha. In 2007, the FDA released its most recent version of the proposed sunscreen regulations, but they have yet to be implemented. While the FDA has been dragging its feet, you and your family are being left out to be burned. EWG's analysis of more than 500 beach and sport sunscreens with SPF ratings of 30 and higher finds that about 60 percent provide inadequate UVA protection. Many sunscreen makers still lace their products with a form of vitamin A called retinyl palmitate, ignoring recent research by the FDA indicating that the chemical speeds up the growth of tumors and lesions when used on sun-exposed skin. There's more bad news. Nearly one in six beach and sport sunscreens claim SPFs higher than 50+. But studies show that high-SPF users are exposed to as much or more UV rays than people who use lower SPF products. Why? Those big numbers give people a false sense of security. They wait too long before reapplying and stay out too long. This is unacceptable. The FDA began taking steps -- 33 years ago! -- to get the sunscreen industry under control. It is more than time for the agency to finish what it started. Stand with me today, and with the EWG Action Fund, if you want safer, better sunscreens on the market. Click here to sign EWG Action Fund's petition before June 9 and demand that the FDA release its sunscreen regulations. Thirty-three years is too long to wait, http://tinyurl.com/6bqc3g4. Thank you for standing with us, Ken Cook
President, EWG Action Fund
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Dear Michael L.,
Thank you for joining us in demanding that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration keep inadequate and potentially harmful sunscreens off the shelves. We are meeting with the FDA soon and are so close to having 50,000 signatures to show that there is overwhelming support for regulating sunscreens -- we only need 12,278 more signatures by midnight tonight. Here are three things you can do right now to help us spread the word:- Forward this email to your friends and family and ask them to click here to sign our petition by midnight tonight!
- Share on Facebook: It's inexcusable that the U.S. FDA has stalled on the release of sunscreen safety regulations for 33 years. So I just told them to start protecting consumers with sunscreen safety regulations now! Join me, it's easy (thx, EWG Action Fund!): http://bit.ly/ipZp8H
- Tweet it: I just told the US FDA to finally issue sunscreen safety regulations. 33 yrs is too long to let us burn. Speak up NOW: http://bit.ly/ipZp8H
Jane Houlihan
Senior Vice President for Research, EWG Action Fund ----------Forwarded Message----------
TO: Jane Houlihan
FROM: Ken Cook
SUBJECT LINE: Take action: Sign our sunscreen petition to the FDA
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