Policy paper

Dental amalgam: plan to phase down use in England

A national plan to phase down the use of dental amalgam in England.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 27 June 2019

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

National plan to phase down use of dental amalgam in England

PDF, 114 KB, 8 pages

Details

Under European Union (EU) Regulation 2017/852 on mercury (Article 10 (3)), all member states were required to develop national plans to phase down the remaining use of amalgam in dentistry.

This report sets out plans to phase down the use of dental amalgam in England.

Published 27 June 2019