Always trust what they tell you bros
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This is a stupid meme and the worst kind of misinformation.
Benzene is not an intended component in any sunscreen on the market. If it's there, it's a byproduct of the manufacturing process and they didn't get clean enough samples of the materials to pass FDA inspection. Anyone who has any experience with organic chemistry knows that it's not like Minecraft. It's not A + B = C. It's A + B = a whole list of possible major and minor products produced in various percentages that depend on a ton of factors from temperature, time, humidity, solvent quality, to the age and purity of the reagents you used. Benzene isn't difficult to make, and it's stable, so it is difficult to remove. Now, all manufacturing processes would be designed to reduce any unwanted products to below safety thresholds. Exactly how that gets done can be a really long discussion depending on what's being made and the demands for purity of the end product.
When the FDA does inspections, they simply see what's there. If they find more than some allowable threshold, you get this kind of message. 16 ppb (parts per billion) when the threshold is 15 ppb, and they can shut down your production line. Meanwhile, the harm that such a thing would translate to if it made it into your bottle of sunscreen is so small that it likely couldn't be measured. Typically, they don't even recall the products. Sometimes, it's merely a voluntary recall for something like this.And after their shitshow decision-making with the Abbott baby formula plant making baby food hard to come by, one would hope they'd show some intelligence and proper risk assessment before screwing with the sunscreen market during the height of summer. In this case, the company voluntarily recalled to protect its reputation and brand, which is good and which happens 99% of the time when errors like this are found.
Without numbers or context, we have no idea what this was, other than sensationalist headlines meant to scare the shit out of people and promote your regular level of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. These are the same people that tell you that eating 3 strips of bacon a day will cause you to get cancer.
The media will say bacon is unhealthy, and California puts a sticker on almost everything to say it may cause cancer. Meanwhile they don't say a damn word about water fluoridation. The establishment, and media often miss the mark make something else out to be the boogie man while ignoring the real threat lurking in the shadows. In other words the media like to pretend like they're looking out for everyone's health by demonizing some rather benign chemical, and it also tricks people into thinking well the other chemicals in the product must be okay.
It's a shell game, and benzene might be the target for their fear driven marketing campaign, but that doesn't mean sunscreens are harmless, especially the aerosol ones which always seemed suspect to me. The aerosols ones contain the most benzene, and breathing in any amount of that chemical concoction should be avoided at all cost.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Makes a lot of sense. I myself prefer not to use sunscreen as well and prefer to wear hats of under strong sun or out for a long time. But usually just au naturelle