International Mercury Treaty

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The International Mercury Treaty:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/10/22/internat ional-mercury-treaty.aspx?e_cid=20131022Z2_DNL_art_2&utm_source=dnl&ut m_medium=email&utm_content=art2&utm_campaign=20131022Z2

There's also a petition here:
http://www.change.org/petitions/dentsply-stop-making-mercury-dental-fi llings

Children and babies are most affected, though it is tooooooxic across the board. To give you an idea of just HOW toxic:

'It’s considered such a potent toxic pollutant that just one drop of mercury in a 20-acre lake over time would poison the lake to the extent that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would ban fishing in it.

Dental amalgam contributes an estimated 10 percent of the overall environmental mercury pollution. Mercury from dental amalgam is released into the air when people are cremated, for example. It also enters soils and waterways, where it becomes a major contaminant of our food supply, similar to what occurred in Minimata. There must be no more Minamatas – anywhere on our planet!..'



'It took a three-year campaign encompassing five negotiation sessions with all the nations, 15 regional sessions, dozens of papers and reports, and hundreds of meetings with individual governments… but the hard work paid off.

The treaty, named the United Nations Minamata Convention on Mercury, requires the phasing out of many mercury-containing products, including thermometers, by 2020, and also calls for an end to all mercury mining within 15 years.

Importantly, the treaty is being hailed as marking the beginning of the end for dental amalgam aroun d the world, as it mandates that each nation phase down amalgam use.

Specifically, each country must do at least two phase down steps listed in the treaty. The most constructive and efficient of those phase-down steps are:
•Promote mercury-free alternatives
•Change dental school curriculum and re-train dentists
•Encourage insurance programs to favor mercury-free dental restorations over amalgam

According to Charlie Brown, the treaty means:

“ …dental amalgam is neither appropriate nor practical in the 21st century… Mercury fillings – amalgam is 50% mercury – have no future, on any continent."