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Table 1 Locations that took regulatory measures to ban certain organic UV filters

From: Toxic effects of UV filters from sunscreens on coral reefs revisited: regulatory aspects for “reef safe” products

Location	Banned UV filter	Effective as of	Reference
Hawaii	BP3 EHMC	January 2021	[33]
Palau	BP3 EHMC OCR 4MBC	January 2020	[69]
U.S. Virgin Islands	BP3 EHMC OCR	March 2020	[86]
Aruba	BP3	July 2020	[14] [53]
Bonaire	BP3 EHMC	January 2021	[57]
Key West Florida^a	BP3 EHMC	January 2021^a	[7]^a

^aCity of Key West’s vote was later overruled by the state of Florida bill SB 172, preempting such regulatory decisions to the state only [29, 80]

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