SchaferAutismReport: FDA Panel to Weigh Health Risk of Dental Amalgam Again

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FDA Panel to Weigh Health Risk of Dental Amalgam Again

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An advisory panel of the US Food

and Drug Administration (FDA) next week will weigh a study claiming

that 67 million Americans with mercury-based dental fillings are

exposed to mercury levels exceeding those considered safe by the US

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The study, commissioned by an

organization committed to mercury-free dentistry, also calls the EPA's

safety threshold too high. It estimates that 122 million Americans with

such fillings would be exposed to unsafe levels of mercury based on

what it calls a more realistic threshold used by the California

Environmental Protection Agency.

The advisory panel hearing, scheduled

for December 14 and 15, promises to be another skirmish in this

country's ongoing scientific war over the health risk of mercury-based

cavity fillings — known as dental amalgam — that dates back to the

mid-19th century, when it divided the dental profession. Declining

dramatically in use during the last several decades, dental amalgam

accounts for roughly 30% of all fillings as alternate materials have

gained popularity, according to the American

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