Jun 202012
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Please go to the link. Includes a video.
There is a huge mobilization in the works.
EXCERPT:
Now we’re taking a new approach: Highlighting the serious environmental health problems caused by dental mercury at the international level. Each partner-organization has a rich history of advocacy and active campaigning for change and better access to truly empowering health information. Over the past year, Consumers for Dental Choice has fought the battle against mercury dental fillings on many fronts, including:
- Leading the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry, the coalition at the mercury treaty sessions seeking to have the treaty address amalgam
- Organizing strategic projects in West Africa, South Asia, and Australia
- Sending strong regional teams of local non-profit leaders, dentists, and environmentalists to key meetings in Pretoria, Brussels, Kuala Lumpuer, and Brasilia
- Commissioning the economics report “The Real Costs of Dental Mercury,” which demonstrates that – counting the horrid environmental costs – amalgam is significantly more expensive (up to $87/filling) than mercury-free fillings
- Winning a number of city resolutions supporting mercury-free dentistry at the local level
- Obtaining consumer fact sheets to warn parents about neurological risks at the state level, and
- Urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to stop dental mercury at the national level