Time schedule

Title of presentation

Speaker

8.30

Registration

9.00

Welcome

John Hontelez - Secretary General ,EEB

9.10

EC approach tackling the issue

Gernot Schnabl, European Commission, DG ENV

9.30

Overview: Mercury Releases from Amalgam to the Environment: Air, Water and Soil

REPORT : Mercury in Dental Use: Environmental Implications for the European Union  and Corrigenda
[May 2007]

Peter Maxson, Director, Concorde East/West sprl

9.50

Dental Clinics Employment of Amalgam Separators, Best Management Practices

Lars Hylander , Ass. Professor, Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Air, Water and Landscape Science.-

10.10

Requirements to Reduce Mercury Emissions from Crematoria

Colin Gillespie, Scottish Environment Protection Agency

10.30

Coffee break

11.00

Phase out of Mercury Amalgam for Health & Environmental Reasons

Petra Ekblom, Swedish Chemicals Agency KemI, Sweden

11.20

Norway's Policy on dental amalgams

Liljan Smith Aandahl, Department for Health and Social affairs, Norway

11.40

Discussion with all morning speakers
Q & A

12.30

Lunch Break

13.45

Introduction

Movie - Norwegian Television Broadcasting November 2005 “Burning Point” Documentary on Dental Assistants, Entitled: “Mercury Women” with English subtitles

14.00

Occupational health concerns

Prof. Bjorn Hilt, St. Olavs University Hospital

14.20

Lifecycle of dental amalgam: public health concerns

Genon Jensen, Executive Director, HEAL

14.40

Coffee break

15.10

Panel Discussion: Mercury in dental amalgams: should we still be using it?

15.15

15.20

15.25

15.30

15.35

• The case for using mercury dental amalgams
  CED Resolution

• Concern over health impacts of dental amalgams and latest scientific findings
  
  

• Building a consensus among dentists for mercury free amalgams 
  
  
• Are vulnerable populations at risk for dental amalgams?

Discussion

• Professor Gottfried Schmalz, The Council of European Dentists
  
  
• Dr. Med. Joachim Mutter, Institute of Environmental Medicine and hospital of Epidemiology at the University Medical Center Freiburg
  
  
• Dr. Graeme Munro-Hall, International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology
  
  
• Jean Huss, AKUT – patient group representing environmentally sensitive patients

16.30

Summary of the day

16.45

End of conference