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COP5 Decision on Dental Amalgam: Parties shall submit National Action Plans
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…
Added to the Global Dental Amalgam Tracker: Gabon bans Dental Amalgam
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…
10 Reasons to Support Mercury-Free Dentistry
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…
Global framework in Bonn sets targets to address harm from chemicals and waste
UNEP Press Release: “Global Framework on Chemicals – For a planet free of harm from chemicals and waste.”…
Nepal wins prestigious Future Policy Award in the category ”Amalgam Fillings”
Nominated by the EnvMed Network, the Nepalese Policy on Dental Amalgam was honoured with the Future Policy Award 2023 during a high-level award ceremony in context of the 5th International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5) in Bonn, Germany…
WHO: Resin-based Composites become Essential Medicine
The World Health Organization (WHO) published the new editions of the Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) and Essential Medicines for Children (EMLc) which include important new medicines for the treatment of diseases…
Nepal and Tanzania on short list of future policy award for banning dental amalgam
For a toxic-free world: Nepal and Tanzania are in the running for prestigious policy prize…
EU Commission wants to ban dental amalgam by 2025
The European Commission has published a draft legislation to phase out dental amalgam in 2025. The revision of the EU Mercury Regulation has been expected since December 2022 and includes a ban on mercury-containing lamps, effectively stoping all remaining intentional uses of mercury in the EU…
Recently added to the Global Dental Amalgam Tracker: Bolivia banned Amalgam in 2019
With the Ministerial Resolution No. 0416 of July 5, 2019 of the Ministry of Health, Bolivia prohibited the use of mercury in dental amalgams throughout the national health system…
