Where Is Science (And US EPA) On Sunscreen Ingredient Environmental Hazards?

08 Mar 2024

• By Lauren Nardella

The US Environmental Protection Agency “is not currently planning a full scope ERA that would include the fate and distribution of UV filters in the environment because the data are currently not available to do so in a defensible manner,” an agency spokesperson said.

Lack of data has hindered progress since a 2022 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine tasked the US Environmental Protection Agency with conducting an ecological risk assessment of UV filters.

In an email to HBW Insight, an EPA spokesperson said available data are “inadequate” for conducting a robust ecological risk...