FDA warns 5 sunscreen brands including Supergoop — why they could be pulled from shelves

 Some of the summer’s hottest beauty products just got burned. 

“Beware of sunscreen products in mousse form because they might not be effective,” the Food and Drug Administration cautioned in a post on X this week. 

The alert follows a wave of warning letters the agency sent to Supergoop!, Vacation Inc. and three other popular brands, accusing them of peddling whipped, mousse and foam sunscreens that flout federal laws. 

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Mousse sunscreen may be popular, but the FDA says the product doesn’t comply with federal laws regarding over-the-counter drugs.Supergoop!

Before you send your beloved sunscreens packing, let’s break down the FDA’s warnings.

The letters — also sent to Kalani Sunwear, K & Care Organics and Fallien Cosmeceuticals (makers of TiZo sunscreen) — claim the frothy formulas are “misbranded.”

That’s because sunscreens are classified as over-the-counter drugs in the US — and that comes with strict regulations around how they’re formulated and marketed.

Per FDA rules, sunscreens can only be sold as oils, lotions, creams, gels, butters, pastes, ointments, sticks, sprays or powders — not foams, mousses or whips.

To use those formats legally, companies must submit a new drug application with sufficient data proving their safety and effectiveness.

“There are no FDA-approved applications in effect for your drug products,” the agency wrote.

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Because they’re marketed to prevent sunburns and skin cancer, sunscreens are regulated as drugs.Vacation

The FDA also took aim at Vacation Inc.’s “Classic Whip Sunscreen,” sold in containers that look like whipped cream cans and advertised as “dessert for your skin.”

“Packaging drug products in containers that resemble food containers commonly used by adults and children can mislead consumers into mistaking the products for food, which is of particular concern as this increases the risk of accidental ingestion,” the agency warned.

But the FDA’s heat doesn’t necessarily mean these fluffy formulas fall short at blocking burns or reducing skin cancer risk.

“The letter does not state that mousse-format sunscreens are less effective or unsafe, nor does it question the quality or performance of our formulation,” Kalani Sunwear told Cosmetics Business, adding that its “Sun Mousse SPF 50 is developed and manufactured in Sweden to the highest European standards.”

A Supergoop! spokesperson told The Post that the warning “is focused on product labeling and has nothing to do with its safety, effectiveness or formula,” and added that the company is “working closely with the FDA to resolve this matter.”

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To legally sell sunscreens in mousse, foam or whipped form, companies have to file new drug applications, the FDA said.TikTok/supergoop

Still, some outside experts aren’t so sure about the whipped format.

“SPF is determined by applying 2 mg/cm^2, which is measured by weight, not volume,” Ava Perkins, a cosmetic chemist and US sunscreen expert, told The Cut. 

“Because these mousse sunscreens have so much air incorporated into the product, it can be challenging to know if you’re putting on enough, even if it seems like a lot is being dispensed,” she added. 

The FDA’s letters, dated Aug. 6, gave each company 15 working days to explain how they plan to fix the issues or prove they’re not in violation.

Kalani Sunwear has already started taking action, temporarily pulling its mousse-format sunscreen from its US website “to ensure full compliance with the regulations,” according to CBS News.

In a statement to The Post, a spokesperson for Vacation said that the company takes “regulatory compliance seriously.”

“We have full confidence in the safety, efficacy and integrity of our product,” they added. “We are committed to working collaboratively with the FDA to satisfactorily resolve this matter.”

The Post has reached out to Kalani Sunwear, K & Care Organics and Fallien Cosmeceuticals for comment.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/health/fda-sends-warning-to-5-sunscreen-brands-including-supergoop/

Kohberger’s disturbing porn searches ahead of gruesome Idaho student murders revealed

 Twisted murderer Bryan Kohberger made disturbing internet searches for women being raped and sexually assaulted while asleep, according to digital forensics experts who were due to testify at his trial.

Kohberger’s search history included terms like “raped,” “forced,” “sleeping,” “passed out” and “voyeur,” according to Heather and Jared Barnhart, who were hired in 2023 to help investigate the psychopath who broke into an off-campus university house in the middle of the night and slaughtered four students.

“The easiest way to say it is that all of his terms were consistently around nonconsensual sex acts,” Jared Barnhart told The Daily Mail.

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Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students.KYLE GREEN/POOL/EPA/Shutterstock

Although Kohberger did not sexually assault any of the victims, the father of one of those killed, Kayla Goncalves, believes the killings were motivated by Kohberger’s “weird sexual fetishes.” Others have speculated that his sick plans were forced to change when he was unexpectedly confronted.

Kohberger cowardly refused to reveal his plans or motives when he unexpectedly admitted the slayings.

The Barnharts’ forensics company, Cellebrite, was tasked with going through Kohberger’s phone and laptop for any evidence connecting him to the murder of the four roommates knifed in their beds at their off-campus home in 2022.

Kohberger had tried to wipe the search history from his devices — even running a data-erasing software on his laptop three days after the killings — but he was not thorough enough, the experts said.

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The four University of Idaho students stabbed to death in November, were Kaylee Goncalves, top left; Xana Kernodle, top right; Ethan Chapin, bottom left; and Madison Mogen, bottom right.ZUMAPRESS.com

While there was no record of the search history, the terms were still found his autofill data on his search engines, Heather said.

“He did his best to leave zero digital footprint. He did not want a digital forensic trail available at all,” she told the Mail.

The Cellebrite team also discovered a PDF file about another serial killer and rapist, Danny Rolling — also known as the “Gainesville Ripper” — whose horrific murders targeting University of Florida students decades ago is eerily similar to Kohberger’s heinous crimes.

Rolling, who was the inspiration for the slasher classic “Scream,” murdered five UF students — four women and one man — after breaking into their homes during a four-day spree in 1990. 

He raped all his female victims, and killed two of them with a Ka-Bar knife — the same weapon Kohberger used, prosecutors said. Rolling was executed in 2006.

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Kohberger’s phone was found with several selfies, including this one in a hoodie days before his arrest.Moscow Police Department

Kohberger’s cell phone additionally contained creepy selfies of the killer posing shirtless and flexing his muscles, the experts said.

He also snapped the chilling selfie of himself giving the thumbs-up just hours after he murdered the four University of Idaho students.

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Kohberger murdered the four with a knife at their Moscow, Idaho home in Nov. 2022.James Keivom

Heather, Senior Director of Forensic Research at Cellebrite, and Jared Barnhart, Head of CX Strategy and Advocacy at the company, were prepared to testify as expert witnesses at Kohberger’s trial before he pleaded guilty last month.

Kohberger was sentenced to four life sentences for killing roommates Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/us-news/bryan-kohbergers-disturbing-porn-searches-revealed-report/

Trump Eyes Using Chips Act Cash To Fund Equity Stake In Intel

 The Trump administration is exploring using US Chips Act money to take an equity stake in Intel Corp., according to people familiar with the matter — an unusual move aimed at rescuing the struggling chipmaker and bolstering domestic semiconductor production, according to Bloomberg.

Talks center on using Chips Act funding to partially finance the purchase, though options are still in early discussion, the people said. It’s unclear whether the stake would come from converting existing Intel grants, allocating new funding, or combining Chips Act money with other sources.

Bloomberg first reported the deliberations, which helped spark a 15% rally in Intel shares over the past two days. The company declined to comment, but said in a statement it is “deeply committed to supporting President Trump’s efforts to strengthen US technology and manufacturing leadership.”

Bloomberg writes that Intel has already been awarded $7.9 billion in Chips Act grants for commercial production, up to $3 billion for the Pentagon’s Secure Enclave program, and access to $11 billion in loans. Any new agreement would strengthen the company’s finances as it slashes spending and jobs.

The talks come days after Trump met with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, whom he had previously called “highly conflicted” over ties to China. The two appeared to patch things up; Trump later said Tan has an “amazing story.”

The approach mirrors other Trump-era interventions, including a “golden share” in US Steel Corp. and a $400 million Pentagon stake in MP Materials Corp. “In the past few months, we’ve seen the government take a much more active role in engaging the economy,” said Geoffrey Gertz of the Center for a New American Security. “That appears to be the current direction for US industrial policy in these critical sectors.”

Intel’s Ohio chip hub — once touted as part of a comeback — has faced repeated delays and will require tens of billions more to launch next-generation manufacturing. “Just a few billion dollars to fund the Ohio plant doesn’t cut it for Intel,” said Jay Goldberg of Seaport Research Partners.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-eyes-equity-stake-intel-using-chips-act-funds

Brazil's BRF expects China, Europe to resume chicken imports

 China and Europe will resume buying chicken products from Brazil "in a matter of days or weeks" as local authorities controlled a bird flu outbreak that triggered trade bans in the second quarter, Brazilian food processor BRF SA said on Friday.

Brazil's first bird flu case at a chicken breeder farm last May sparked a number of trade restrictions that were gradually lifted by importers as the world's largest poultry exporter controlled the outbreak.

The government declared Brazil free of the highly contagious disease in June.

In a conference call on BRF's quarterly results, management said food inventories had risen above desirable levels due to the export restrictions, a situation BRF aims to resolve in the short term.

"As those two markets reopen we will return to inventory levels more closer to zero," CEO Miguel Gularte told an analyst on the call. "It is our philosophy not to keep inventories without sales."

BRF described China and Europe as "extremely important" markets. On Thursday, management had welcomed a decision by Saudi Arabia and Chile to resume purchases, citing official government disclosures.

BRF said it redirected some chicken cuts usually sold to China to other markets. The company's poultry exports fell by 5% last quarter, compared with an overall drop of 15% for Brazilian exports.

Goldman Sachs said BRF's results were surprisingly positive given the challenging scenario.

The company's shares rose almost 4% in late morning trade in Sao Paulo.

Genial Investimentos wrote that despite the avian flu effects, BRF's margins and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, a measure of operating income known as EBITDA, "exceeded expectations."

Going forward, lower grain prices, corn in particular, will reduce production costs and widen margins during the third and fourth quarters, managers on the call said.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brazils-brf-expects-china-europe-135147493.html

Jared Kushner's firm buys 8% stake in UK lender OakNorth, Sky News reports

 A private equity firm founded by U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has signed a deal to buy an 8% stake in British lender OakNorth, Sky News reported on Friday, citing industry sources.

Affinity Partners, which was founded by Kushner in 2021 and has investments from funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, has acquired the OakNorth stake from an unidentified existing investor, Sky News said.

The investment company did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the report.

OakNorth declined to comment. The SoftBank-backed group, which was founded by Rishi Khosla and Joel Perlman and launched in 2015, has in the past leaned towards a U.S. listing to expand its business.

The report also comes amid growing interest around Trump and his affiliates’ business ventures and talks of the U.S. government possibly taking a stake in Intel.

OakNorth reported pretax profit of nearly 215 million pounds ($291.5 million) last year as it continued with its expansion in the U.S., where it began operating by mid-2023 and has received licenses for a representative office in New York.

Sky News said the value of the Affinity-OakNorth transaction was unclear. Reports have said the British lender was valued at about $2.8 billion in its latest funding round in 2019.

OakNorth runs a business bank in Britain with more than 7.5 billion pounds in assets and supplies its technology to lenders elsewhere.

In 2024, it had lent more than 2.1 billion pounds to customers. Its clients include F1 Arcade and personalised training provider Ultimate Performance.

"Despite ongoing macro-economic challenges, we are bullish for 2025," OakNorth co-founder and CEO Rishi Khosla said in March after the company’s 2024 report was published.

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/jared-kushners-firm-buys-8-stake-in-uk-lender-oaknorth-sky-news-reports-4195044

India plans sweeping consumption tax cuts by October to boost economy

 India's government will slash the consumption tax it charges consumers and businesses by October, a top official said on Friday, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced sweeping tax reforms to boost the economy in the face of a trade conflict with Washington.

The federal government will propose a two-rate structure of 5% and 18%, doing away with the 12% and 28% tax that was imposed on some items, said the government official, who declined to be named as the plans are still private.

The plan is to bring "99%" of all the items that are in 12% category to 5%, the official said. That tax slab includes butter, fruit juices, and dry fruits, and any cuts to the basket could benefit the likes of Nestle to Hindustan Unilever to Procter & Gamble.

The tax cut plan comes amid growing tensions between New Delhi and Washington on steep U.S. tariffs on Indian goods. Modi on Friday made a public appeal to promote domestic products, and his supporters have been calling for boycott of American products.

Addressing the nation on its 79th independence day, Modi earlier said that the goods and services tax would be reformed and taxes lowered by Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, set to be celebrated in October this year.

"This Diwali, I am going to make it a double Diwali for you. Over the past eight years, we have undertaken a major reform in goods and services tax. We are bringing next-generation GST reforms that will reduce the tax burden across the country," Modi said.

The final decision will be taken by the GST (goods and services taxes) Council, which is chaired by the finance minister and has all the state's finance ministers as members, the official said. The council is set to meet by October.

Citi estimates that about 20% of items - including packaged food and beverages, apparel and hotel accommodation - fall under the 12% GST slab, accounting for 5-10% of consumption and 5-6% of GST revenue.

If most of these are moved to the 5% slab and some to the 18% slab, it could lead to a revenue loss of around 500 billion rupees, or 0.15% of GDP, potentially taking the total policy stimulus for households in the current 2025-26 financial year to 0.6%-0.7% of GDP, the brokerage said.

https://www.marketscreener.com/news/india-plans-sweeping-consumption-tax-cuts-by-october-to-boost-economy-ce7c51d9d18ef52c