Holidaying feds leave bathers waiting for suspect sunscreen list

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Holidaying feds leave bathers waiting for suspect sunscreen list Melissa Fyfe December 28, 2008 AS YOU head to the beach this summer, perhaps you would like to know which sunscreens may be toxic and which may not? Well, bad luck. The Federal Health Department has also gone on holidays and cannot provide a list of creams that contain nanoparticles, a technology that has attracted criticism lately. The tricky thing for sunscreen makers is this: the two key sun-blocking ingredients, titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, come in relatively big particles not easily rubbed into the skin. Since 1990, makers have pulverised them into nanoparticles 1000 times smaller than the width of a human hair or 200 times smaller than a blood cell. This gets rid of the white residue. >snip> It seems installers had left nanoparticle sunscreens on the steel and in six weeks it caused damage equal to 15 years' weather damage. More at this link: http://tinyurl.com/9skswb Discovered at: http://www.rense.com/