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  • Associate Professor of Immunotoxicology; Co-ordinator of Nanosafe Australia and Asia Nano Safe research networks, RMIT University
It’s the sun rather than nanoparticles in sunscreen that poses the real health risk. Edson Soares

Time to dispel the fear of nanoparticles in sunscreens

Paul Wright, RMIT University

The sunny season has well and truly started, as has the daily summer ritual of applying sunscreen. So now is the perfect time to consider whether “nano sunscreens”, which contain UV filtering nanoparticles…
A festival worker hands out sunscreen to the crowd at the Big Day Out in Sydney. AAP/Dan Himbrechts

Keep slapping it on: fears over sunscreen nanoparticles unfounded

Justin Norrie, The Conversation

Human skin can tolerate the tiny metal oxide nanoparticles found in some sunscreens just as well as larger and organic alternatives, the latest tests by RMIT University researchers show. The finding comes…

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