European Environmental Bureau Urges EU States To Ban Amalgam Fillings
The European Environmental Bureau has urged EU member states to ban amalgam fillings.
The NGO wrote to member states ahead of a European Commission meeting on dental amalgam, which was held on the 11th October; the aim is to encourage EU states and dental experts to back a plan to phase out mercury use in dentistry over the course of the coming years.
Amalgam fillings are still used in many countries, despite the fact that more patients are choosing to have more aesthetically pleasing white fillings and the EEB is eager for mercury use in dentistry to be phased out both in Europe and across the world in the near future.
The EEB has also written to states to urge them to support the exemption of cadmium in batteries; the proposed deadline for the ban is December 2015 but the EEB is hoping to bring this forward to December 2013.
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