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EU to ban use of dental amalgam in 2025 – WAMFD

The 27-nation European Union will end the use of amalgam in dentistry in 2025, the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry (WAMFD) has disclosed. President, WAMFD,...

Environmental health practitioners to support Zambian efforts to phase out dental amalgam

Over 120 environmental health practitioners from 10 provinces of Zambia who attended the Zambia Institute of Environmental Health (ZIEH) conference in Lusaka from December...

Zambia to phase out dental amalgam, end childhood lead poisoning

An appeal by the Executive Director and National Lead Elimination Advisor, Children's Environmental Health Foundation (CEHF), Michael Musenga, to the President of Zambia, Mr....

COP5 on dental amalgam: Parties shall submit National Action Plans

The Fifth Conference of the Parties (COP5) to the Minamata Convention on Mercury that held from October 30 to November 2, 2023, in Geneva...

Michael Musenga: Why no country in Africa needs amalgam

Michael Musenga, Executive Director and National Lead Elimination Advisor, Children's Environmental Health Foundation in Zambia, in this piece appeals to manufacturers to think of...

Group urges enforcement of phase-out deadline on mercury-containing dental amalgam

Environmental watchdog group, BAN Toxics, has called the attention of regulators to enforce the phase-out deadline on the use of mercury in dental restorative...

Stakeholders clamour urgent action to end dental amalgam use in Nigeria

Ahead of the approaching September 28 date that Children’s Amendment will enter into force, stakeholders in the environment and health sectors have called for...

Minamata Convention: Zambia set to phase out use of dental amalgam

Following the halting of the use of dental amalgam for over two decades, Zambia is now set to transition to completely phasing out the...

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COP29 climate talks urged to find $1trn annually for poorer countries

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Africa grapples with forecasting challenge as weather disasters loom

Deputy Director of Chad’s National Meteorological Agency, Hamid Abakar Souleymane, waggled his finger up and down to demonstrate how...

COP29: Activists transform Olympic Stadium into call for climate finance deal

Global climate activists on Thursday, November 14, 2024, took over Baku’s Olympic stadium – the venue for the United...

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COP29 climate talks urged to find $1trn annually for poorer countries

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