Countries decide to stop using mercury in dental amalgam by 2034

Countries discussing tougher mercury regulations decided Friday to ban the use, import and export of mercury-containing dental amalgams worldwide by 2034.The decision was reached at a meeting on the Minamata Convention on Mercury held in Geneva this week. The pact is named after a seaside city in southwestern Japan where many people were poisoned by mercury in the 1950s.Japan, which paid an enormous human cost at the time due to what it calls Minamata disease, has already been reducing the use of mercury amalgams over the past decade, driven by public health concerns."This is a major step f…READ FULL ARTICLE