In 2022 the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reviewed 17 UV filters and reached one central conclusion: no ecological risk assessment of sunscreen filters has ever been conducted, and regulators should carry one out. The report is a data-gap review, not a verdict on any ingredient. It is nonetheless cited as though it condemned mineral sunscreen. It does not. The report states that documented impacts of zinc oxide on corals are minimal, and that o