The Australian Sunscreen Council (ASC) is making available the analytical method used by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to identify and quantify residual benzene in sunscreen products. The method was released by the TGA under Freedom of Information and is attached below for members, manufacturers, contract laboratories and other interested parties. Benzene is not an ingredient in sunscreens, but trace amounts can be introduced through raw materials, propellants or packaging. The...

Homosalate found at potentially harmful levels in more than 50% of Queensland children, as the TGA has already concluded it is no longer low risk at the currently permitted concentration.

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 organic and inorganic