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OTC Sunscreen Ingredients’ Environmental Impacts Likely To Be Growing Discussion, Including At US FDA

 
• By Lauren Nardella

Designating new “critical habitats” off US shores, as proposed by the National Marine Fisheries Service, would require federal agencies “to ensure that actions they plan to undertake, fund, or authorize do not destroy or adversely modify that habitat.” That could factor in the US FDA’s OTC sunscreen review program and potential follow-up on a 2018 citizen petition calling for a ban on "coral-killing" UV filters.

Proposed rulemaking from the US National Marine Fisheries Service would designate areas of the Caribbean, Florida and the Indo-Pacific region as “critical habitats” to help protect coral reefs, movement that could resurface concerns about sunscreen ingredients.

It also could complicate the US Food and Drug Administration’s consideration of UV filters that it already has flagged as

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