Showing its interest in the public learning about its recommendation against amalgam use in children, young women, and people with kidney and neurological disease (plus others), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released two infographics to reinforce its point.  These infographics are also available in Spanish.

You can help make sure FDA’s infographics get into the hands of every patient, family member, friend, neighbor, and colleague in your network by…

• Printing and distributing FDA’s infographics. You can post them on community bulletin boards or if you are a health professional you can display them in your office.

• Sharing FDA’s infographics on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. Try using this hashtag: #mercuryfree

• Incorporating FDA’s infographics into your website or e-newsletter.

Circulating FDA’s new infographics is an important step toward protecting vulnerable populations from amalgam – and a first step toward ending all amalgam use for everybody!

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a safety communication recommending against amalgam use in people who are at higher risk from the adverse effects of mercury exposure, including…

• Pregnant women and their developing babies
• Women who are planning to become pregnant
• Nursing women and their newborns and infants
• Children, especially those younger than six years of age
• People with pre-existing neurological disease
• People with impaired kidney function
• People with known heightened sensitivity (allergy) to mercury or other components of dental amalgam.

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