Hawaii and Other Jurisdictions Ban Oxybenzone or Octinoxate Sunscreens Based on the Confirmed Adverse Environmental Effects of Sunscreen Ingredients on Aquatic Environments

J Cutan Med Surg. 2019 Nov/Dec;23(6):648-649. doi: 10.1177/1203475419871592.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anthozoa / drug effects
  • Aquatic Organisms / drug effects
  • Benzophenones / toxicity*
  • Cinnamates / toxicity*
  • Environmental Pollution* / analysis
  • Environmental Pollution* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Environmental Pollution* / prevention & control
  • Hawaii
  • Humans
  • Sunscreening Agents* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Sunscreening Agents* / toxicity
  • Titanium
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical / toxicity*
  • Zinc Oxide / pharmacology
  • Zinc Oxide / toxicity

Substances

  • Benzophenones
  • Cinnamates
  • Sunscreening Agents
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical
  • titanium dioxide
  • octylmethoxycinnamate
  • oxybenzone
  • Titanium
  • Zinc Oxide