--- title: House Passes Sunscreen Product Review Bill description: The first of its kind in more than a decade canonical: https://time.com/3049420/sunscreen-ingredients/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-29T00:52:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:23:08.990Z article:section: Health og:title: House Passes Sunscreen Product Review Bill og:description: The first of its kind in more than a decade og:url: https://time.com/3049420/sunscreen-ingredients/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: House Passes Sunscreen Product Review Bill twitter:description: The first of its kind in more than a decade twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # House Passes Bill to Update Sunscreen Review Process > Sponsored content. 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The act won’t change the level of scientific review required for FDA approval, only some of the procedural steps that can draw out the review process. If it becomes a law, the Sunscreen Innovation Act would only apply to sunscreen products that have been marketed outside the U.S. for at least five years. Most of the ingredients pending approvals could have their reviews completed within the following year, according to the American Cancer Society, whose advocacy wing the Cancer Action Network supports the bill. “Educating people about good sun safety behaviors is only half of the story,” ACS CAN President Chris Hansen said in a statement. “American consumers should have access to the broadest choice of sunscreens — including those in use for years in other countries — once they are shown to be safe and effective.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3049420/sunscreen-ingredients/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3049420/sunscreen-ingredients/"},"headline":"House Passes Bill to Update Sunscreen Review Process","datePublished":"2014-07-29T00:52:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:23:08.990Z","description":"The first of its kind in more than a decade","url":"https://time.com/3049420/sunscreen-ingredients/","keywords":["Cancer","skin cancer"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/cancer/","name":"Cancer"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3049420/sunscreen-ingredients/","name":"House Passes Bill to Update Sunscreen Review Process"}}]}] ```