Web Tool
Visit our web tool! It contains an open, free training course on how the dental industry can minimize emissions from dental amalgam. There are short video clips, interactive articles and documents with examples from Sweden.
Click here!Materials and documents
Below you will find material and documents from external actors and public authorities concering mercury emissions and amalgam use. You will also find printed material and documents developed within the project.
Project documents
- The project's results (Layman´s Report for the general public)
- Technical Final Report (abbreviated version of Final Report)
- After-LIFE report
- Dissemination Report
- Assessment of the socio-economic impact of the project actions on the local
economy and population - Environmental and Technical Evaluation with Life Cycle Assessment
- Final Results
- Checklist upkeep of amalgam separator (for every working day and week)
- Checklist upkeep of amalgam separator (other maintenance)
- Report on laws and recommendations on dental mercury management in the EU
- Dental practice routines and municipalities’ supervision – summary of surveys on mercury control
- A study of knowledge, inspection methods and legislative demands
- Newsletter November 2017
- Guidelines for dental care in Sweden
Information and documentation from the EU and other actors
- Mercury Management in Sweden, Swedish Chemicals Agency and Environmental Protection Agency, 2014
- Lessons from Countries Phasing Down Dental Amalgam Use, United Nations Environment Programme (2016)
- REGULATION (EU) 2017/852 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 17 May 2017 on mercury, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1102/2008
- Study on the potential for reducing mercury pollution from dental amalgam and batteries, European Commission (2012)
- National plan of Dental amalgam phase out, Swedish experiences, Swedish Chemicals Agency (2019)
- Moving towards a PHASE-OUT OF DENTAL AMALGAM IN EUROPE: What dental practitioners need to know, Health Care Without Harm (2018)
- Mercury in Europe’s environment: A priority for European and global action, European Environment Agency (2018)
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