Mercury, the main ingredient in amalgam dental material, will be the subject of a United Nations conference to be held in Chiba, Japan, January 24-28, 2011.
Members of various nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), as well as dentists and scientists from groups such as the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT), will be attending and urging a ban on products containing mercury, including dental amalgam, according to the IAOMT.
The event is the second of five intergovernmental negotiating committee meetings planned with the purpose of creating worldwide mercury regulations by 2013.
These meetings are the result of an agreement made by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environmental Programme in 2009, when it was decided to create global standards addressing risks related to mercury.
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