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No more mercury in your mouth: toxic metal’s use as tooth filling to end by 2034

At a conference in Geneva, signatories to the Minamata Convention on Mercury – aimed at protecting humans and the environment from mercury pollution – called time on mercury amalgams.

Nations agreed “to end the use of dental amalgam by 2034, marking a historic milestone in reducing mercury pollution”, the conference announced in its closing statement.

Full article: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3332022/no-more-mercury-your-mouth-toxic-metals-use-tooth-filling-end-2034