Hawaii has become the first state to prohibit the sale of sunscreens containing oxybenzone and octinoxate due to concerns over the ingredients’ impact on coral reefs.
The ban will go into effect
Hawaii’s Sunscreen Ingredient Ban Is On The Books; To Industry, An Affront To Science
As in the case of plastic microbeads some four years ago, the personal-care industry finds itself in the position of having to reformulate potentially on a mass scale due to environmental rather than human safety concerns. And once again the legislation was driven in large part by shoddy science, industry says.
