Posted on 10/30/2025 11:55:54 AM PDT by algore
Britain is facing mounting pressure to ban mercury dental fillings, one of the few countries yet to prevent the practice, as new data reveals alarming contamination levels in the nation’s fish and shellfish.
Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that can harm the nervous, digestive and immune systems, as well as the lungs, kidneys, skin and eyes, even at low levels of exposure. Its organic form, methylmercury, is particularly dangerous to unborn babies and can move through the food chain building up in insects, fish and birds.
Britain is lagging behind the rest of the world on phasing out mercury dental fillings, with 43 countries having already banned mercury amalgam, including the EU, Sweden, Norway, Tanzania, Uganda, Indonesia and the Philippines. Northern Ireland will outlaw mercury fillings from 2035 but no such ban is planned in the rest of Britain.
According to new analysis by the Rivers Trust and Wildlife and Countryside Link, more than 98% of fish and mussels tested in English rivers and coastal waters contain mercury above safety limits proposed by the EU, with more than half containing more than five times the recommended safe level.
Mercury from dental fillings enters the environment mainly through crematorium emissions, which release vaporised metal into the air when people with amalgam fillings are cremated. The mercury then settles on land and washes into rivers and seas.
At the upcoming Minamata convention on mercury in November 2025, governments will debate a global phase-out of dental amalgam by 2030. African nations including Botswana and Burkina Faso are leading the call, while UK groups are urging Defra to support the proposal and bring forward Northern Ireland’s 2034 timeline to match.
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as far as the lazy crematories go, pliers are not expensive.
This is all a conspiracy. The world is jealous of the great teeth that Britain is famous for. Now they want to ban dental fillings in order to bring Britain down to the level of other nations, at least as far as teeth go.
Who pays for fish dentristy?
“pliers are not expensive.”
Seriously. How long would it take to pull out metallic teeth before incineration? Like 2 minutes?
My current dentist is so good, that a filling he put in about 30 years ago, remained intact, when part of the tooth recently broke off . They were able to save the tooth, using the same filling. Cheap dentist visit.
Who goes to the dentist in Britain? You'd never know it.
Is there any proof that fish eat humans? Well sharks, I know but...
Funny thing though, I am allergic to base metals. I first found out that I had that allergy in basic training, when I had to wear the chain around my neck for dog tags. I woke up the next morning with large full blisters as big around as the bottom of an aluminum can on my neck and chest. The TI (USAF) told me to use a bootlace instead of the chain.
Later on, the first time I used OTC eye drops, my eyes burned and turned as red as a beet. I figured out that it was the Thiomersal Antifungal which is a compound of Mercury.
For the past fifty-one years my wedding band of white gold has had a callous on my finger because of the nickel in the white gold.
To bring this to a close, in the late 1990's I went to a dentist and had him remove all of my Mercury amalgam fillings and I believe my health skyrocketed.
There must be only an infinitesimal number of people that have a base metal allergy so this suggested ban is silly.
Oh wait, I hadn't thought of the dentists that will be able to become mega millionaires just removing Mercury amalgam fillings. And think of the Big-Pharma windfall to provide the new plastic fillings and ceramic crowns.
Always follow the money.
I am sure the mercury has everything to do with dental fillings and not the dumping of industrial and military waste for decade after decade which has contaminated the river and seabeds around England ☠️🤔
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