Over the weekend my wife and I went to Coney Island - which classes as doing nothing. I think I was wise to use plenty of sunscreen while sitting on the beach, but just before you get too complacent I did find an online database of over 700 sunscreens, their ingredients and some toxicity information.
There is on-going debate in the community with regard to the safety or not of nano-particles and certainly on of their uses is in sunscreens, though this has to be weighed with the individuals exposure. so essentially the jury is still out! There is an interesting paper in Environmental Health Perspectives from 2005 on nanotox.
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