FDA-approved (Scenesse, 2019) to increase pain-free light exposure in adults with erythropoietic protoporphyria. Not approved for tanning.
An approval for one condition is not an approval for everything a compound is marketed for. That distinction is where most confusion in this category comes from — a drug approved for one use is frequently sold for several others it was never evaluated for.
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