Environmental watchdog group, BAN Toxics, has called the attention of regulators to enforce the phase-out deadline on the use of mercury in dental restorative...
Ahead of the approaching September 28 date that Children’s Amendment will enter into force, stakeholders in the environment and health sectors have called for...
Dental and environmental practitioners have underlined the need for the Lagos State Government to make a pronouncement in line with the global effort to...
Amalgam is a dental filling material that is 50% mercury, a neurotoxin and pollutant. This week, BAN Toxics, a Philippines-based not-for-profit, marks an historic milestone in...
The Children’s Amendment to the amalgam reduction requirement of the Minamata Convention on Mercury entered into force on Friday, June 24, 2022.
Henceforth, all the...
African governments, dentists, and consumers are increasingly turning against the use of dental amalgam, the highly controversial dental fillings material that is 50% mercury.
In...
