After a week of intense negotiations, the world’s first global mercury ban is clear. While no dental amalgam phase out date has been set, during the negotiations that led to the new treaty on mercury, article 6 on products in Annex C Part II, requires countries to take steps to phase down dental mercury globally. “This is the beginning of the end of dental amalgam globally,” said Michael T. Bender, MPP director. “We applaud the leadership role the US played in jump-starting support for a phase down in 2011 along with the concrete steps in Nordic countries, Switzerland and Japan in phasing out amalgam.”
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UN treaty on mercury expected to phase down amalgam globally
Summary of The Fifth Session of The Iintergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Prepare A Global Legally Binding Iinstrument on Mercury: 13-19 January 2013. Earth Negotiations Bulletin 2013; 28, No. 22: 1-25.