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Is it possible that amalgam fillings may be banned from road and air transportation before they are banned from being placed in people's mouths? Yes!

How did this absurd situation ever arise?? I don't know, but the only pleas I would personally accept at this point would be either insanity or the committing of crimes against humanity or both. Here are a couple of interesting quotations concerning transport of amalgam fillings - regarded as a highly toxic hazardous waste in all places except when it's safely inside your mouth. Note: Perhaps the solution to the concerns about transporting amalgam safely is that it needs to be placed into people's mouths first by a dentist before it's allowed in a van or aeroplane? Any volunteers?

(1) It looks like dentists and dental associations worldwide ought to sit up and pay attention to what the EU Commission is planning:

"The main source of exposure in developed countries is through inhaling mercury vapour from dental amalgam. . . The EU is the world's biggest exporter of mercury. The Commission intends to propose a ban (by 2011) on the export of mercury from the European Union (EU)."

Source: Communication from the Commission of 28 January 2005, "Community Strategy Concerning Mercury" [COM(2005) 20 - Official Journal C 52 of 2 March 2005]. http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l28155.htm

(2) Part of the problem is that whether dentists like it or not, it's not even safe enough to transport to their dental clinics:

"It recently came to my attention that there's controversy in the European Union about the transport of amalgam from the manufacturer to the warehouses and to the dental offices. Restrictions on the transport of hazardous materials is interfering with the free flow of the amalgam to its place of use because it's so hazardous. Many good brains in the European Union don't want it on the public highways. They don't want it on the aircraft. And of course there are workplace rules for storing that amalgam until it gets used, and...once amalgam comes back out of a mouth it has to be handled as a hazardous waste. But yet it's safe while in the human mouth. That's another thing that just defies logic and defies common sense. I cannot reconcile that. And...the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Science Foundation...estimates that...at least 60,000 babies are born a year...in the United States with the risk of learning disabilities because they've been mercury-poisoned through the placenta from their mother and from their mother's amalgams. Sixty thousand a year."

Source: John Rowe, coordinator for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of three U.S. congressional hearings on the subject of dental amalgam. www.mercurypoisoned.com/FDA_hearings/ad ... afety.html