Pharmacy Daily | Mercury concerns

THE Australian Dental Industry Association has joined the Government in raising concerns over proposals to implement an immediate or short-term restriction on the use of dental amalgam. The plans are set to be discussed by the United Nations Environment Program this week (UNEP), with hopes to progress a globally binding treaty on the use of mercury. “ADIA acknowledges that dental amalgam waste generated by dental practices represents a real source of mercury pollution in the environment,” ADIA said in a statement. “ADIA supports the rapid installation of equipment that separates dental amalgam waste from wastewater produced by dental practices,” the statement added. Meanwhile the organisation addressed concerns expressed in some quarters about possible adverse patient outcomes associated with the use of dental amalgam by saying that it “accepts the views of the Australian Dental Association and the World Dental Federation which have both issued definitive statements, backed by research, that dental amalgam is a relatively safe and highl

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