The EnvMed Network is a nonprofit organisation engaged in establishing Environmental Medicine in Europe. Given the increasing amount of harmful chemicals in the environment and the growing scientific evidence of correlations with chronic diseases, we are committed to reduce environmental exposures, promoting research into health links and treatments, better aligning medical care with these findings, and facilitating patient access to analysis.
COP 5 of the Minamata Convention agreed that all countries which have not yet phased out dental amalgam shall present a national action plan to do so. The first plan is due by 31 December 2025 and may consider that the next Conference of the Parties will discuss to phase-out the manufacturing and trade of dental amalgam by 2030…
With effect from 24 October 2023, the Gabonese Ministry of Health and Social Affairs is banning the manufacture, import, export, distribution and use of dental amalgam…
Amalgam pollutes our environment, endangers our health, damages teeth, endangers dental workers, is frequently implanted without informed consent, perpetuates social injustice, costs taxpayers, is diverted to illegal gold mining, is interchangeable with mercury-free filling materials and drives up the price of mercury-free alternatives…
The World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry presented the Global Progress of Countries Phasing Out Dental Amalgam “March to Mercury-Free Dentistry, Country by Country, Region by Region” at COP5 of the Minamata Convention…
Since there are viable mercury-free alternatives, dental amalgam shall no longer be used for dental treatments of the general population from 1st January 2025…
“Phasing Out Dental Amalgam: An Emerging Need to Eliminate Mercury in Products”, 9th October, 2023 at 14:45 to 15:45 CET. Register now…
Global Overview of Countries Phasing Out Dental Amalgam: According to the Minamata Conventions Full National Reports 2021, the MIAs, or other official documents, the global transition to a mercury-free dentistry is fully underway…
Since the new Medical Devices Regulation (MDR 2017/745) entered into force on May 26, 2021, the legal safety requirements for dental amalgam capsules have increased significantly, why manufacturers start leaving the European business…
In line with the European Mercury Regulation (EU 2017/852), member states were required to submit National Action Plans (by 1 July 2019) to reduce the use of dental amalgam and preferably phase it out by 2030. 26 of 27 national plans were published…
Aufforderung an die Europäische Kommission, die Verpflichtungen des Green Deal in Bezug auf Chemikalien, Lebensmittelsysteme und Tierschutz einzuhalten. Die Gesundheit der Europäer*innen und die Zukunft des grünen Wirtschaftswachstums der EU stehen auf dem Spiel…
Trotz einiger Erfolge blieb der erhoffte Durchbruch auf der Weltchemikalienkonferenz in Bonn aus. Umweltverbände zeigen sich enttäuscht, dass das neue globale Chemikalienabkommen unter dem Titel “Global framework on chemicals – for a planet free of harm from chemicals and waste”, das heute in Bonn verabschiedet wurde, nicht die dringend benötigte Trendwende einleitet…
Die Belastung mit Chemikalien betrifft alle. Sie überschreitet unsere planetaren Grenzen und zwingt uns angesichts von Erkrankungen und der Kontamination ganzer Ökosysteme zum entschlossenen Handeln…
The health impact of chemicals in the environment is constantly increasing. There is a significant associated rise in neurological, autoimmune and cancer diseases. Male fertility decreases dramatically. However, when patients visit the doctor, hardly any examinations are carried out for possible chemical exposures.
We bring researchers and practitioners in the fields of metal biology, medicine and medical geology together to showcase the recent developments and address global challenges we face today within the field of metal toxicity.
Our mission is to advocate and support the adoption and implementation of a legally binding instrument which contains mandatory obligations to eliminate where feasible, and otherwise minimize, the global supply and trade of mercury, the global demand for mercury, anthropogenic releases of mercury to the environment, and human and wildlife exposure to mercury.
The European Network for Environmental Medicine is a non-profit organisation located in Berlin. Your direct donations enable us to work on reducing environmental exposures, promoting research into health links and treatments, better aligning medical care with these findings, and facilitating patient access to analysis.
