Faced with the deadlines, the FDA then released a proposed decision rejecting all eight ingredients that had been pending approval. PASS criticized the FDA for its action, and an editorial in The Wall Street Journal called for the agency to be stripped of its power to regulate sunscreen. Despite Congress' intent to expedite the sunscreen approval process and continued pressure by the sunscreen industry and skin cancer prevention advocates, there has been no movement on approval of sunscreen ingredients since passage of the Sunscreen Innovation Act.
