{"id":369,"date":"2015-11-26T10:06:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T04:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esdo.org\/esdo\/?p=369"},"modified":"2015-12-30T11:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T05:07:44","slug":"petition-filed-to-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/petition-filed-to-fda\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition filed to FDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers for Dental Choice has filed a new petition calling on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conform with the Minamata Convention on Mercury, says a press release.\u00a0They were joined by other\u00a0<!--more-->petitioners\u00a0including the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry (WAMFD), Asian Centre for Environmental Health, African Centre for Environmental Health, and Mercury Policy Project to amend mercury amalgam rule at 74 FR 38686 to revoke FDA&#8217;s official support for &#8216;change towards use of dental amalgam&#8217;- which is contrary to the Minamata Convention on Mercury&#8217;s requirement to &#8216;phase down amalgam use.&#8217; The Minamata Convention requires nations to phase down the use of dental amalgam. The U.S. government signed and accepted the Minamata Convention on 6 November 2013. FDA&#8217;s official support for &#8216;change towards use of dental amalgam&#8217; and its rejection of &#8216;any change away from use of dental amalgam&#8217; is contrary to the Minamata Convention&#8217;s requirement that parties &#8216;phase down the use of dental amalgam.&#8217; In the early of 2015, representatives of WAMFD had a discussion with the Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) asking him to bring FDA into conformity with the Minamata Convention. Besides this, a month ago, sixty environmental groups sent a letter urging Secretary of State John Kerry to bring FDA into line with the U.S.&#8217;s commitment to reduce dental amalgam use. So, it is high time, to start bringing the US government into conformity with the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the commissioner must amend FDA&#8217;s mercury amalgam rule<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers for Dental Choice has filed a new petition calling on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conform with the Minamata Convention on Mercury, says a press release.\u00a0They were joined by other\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}