Hearings

• Congress to demand accounting from FDA for refusing to classify mercury fillings & refusing to do Environmental Impact Statement - Nov. 14, 2007
• BREAKTHROUGH AT FDA – hearings on mercury toxicity from amalgam scheduled for Sept. 6-7, 2006
• Congressman Burton Holds Second Amalgam Hearing; ADA Spokesman's Testimony Discredited by Leading Scientists - May 8, 2003
  Summary by Richard D. Fisher, DDS
• Committee on Government Reform Hearing - Nov. 14, 2002

Health Agencies

• FDA
  • June 3, 2008 - We Win -- FDA Must Classify Mercury Fillings
  • December 28, 2007 - WE SUE FDA TOP BRASS -- SEEK REMOVAL OF MERCURY FILLINGS FROM MARKET.
  • Press coverage of lawsuit highlights charge that FDA Commissioner, like British Queen, "reigns but not rule," allowing lawless bureaucracy to set policy on mercury fillings (FDA Webview, www.fdaweb.com).
  • Consumers for Dental Choice asks Dept. of Justice to see that FDA keeps its promise – and complies with the law! (FDA Webview, www.fdaweb.com).
  • November 14, 2007 - Congressional Hearing To Demand Accounting from FDA for Refusing To Classify Mercury Fillings & Refusing To Do E.I.S.
  • Septenber 6-7, 2006 - FIRST GOVERNMENT HEARINGS IN 13 YEARS REVIEWING HEALTH RISKS OF MERCURY AMALGAM FILLINGS
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  • July 28, 2008 - State and Local Public Officials Mercury-Free Caucus calls for strong and prompt action by FDA
  • July 9, 2008 - Judge Huvelle upholds FDA settlement, ruling that it achieved more for our cause than a trial could have
  • June 28, 2008 - Now it's ADA v. FDA on mercury fillings
  • April 16, 2008 - FDA's architect of mercury cover-up, Assoc. Commissioner Norris Alderson, says: "Not for MY grandchildren." Please join us in protesting to FDA Commissioner.
  • November 20, 2007 - Dramatic hearing on Capitol Hill: Members of Congress demand to know why FDA refuses to do Environmental Impact Statement.
  • November 16, 2007 - FDA gives false and misleading testimony to Congress re votes of Scientific Advisory Committee votes, and re FDA's veterinary policies. FDA doesn’t want Congress to know it bans all mercury exposure for horses and dogs while refusing to protect children and unborn children from mercury exposure via amalgam.
  • August 28, 2007 - As ADA's control over FDA policy collapses, we urge FDA to keep its promise to classify
  • July 4, 2007 - Bureau of Nat. Affairs: 'FDA Mulling Changes to Dental Amalgam Policy, May Issue Proposed Rulemaking'
  • July, 2007 - ADA Warns Members: Trouble ahead for mercury fillings
  • June 4, 2007 - Consumers to FDA: Legal and policy reasons why you must exit mercury fillings
  • June 1, 2007 - Report by Consumers for Dental Choice: Putting Agenda Above Science / CDRH’s Record of Deception, Schemes, and Scientific Myths To Keep Mercury Amalgam on the Market
  • May 14, 2007 - We ask FDA to meet with IAOMT Science Advisory Board to end their lies
  • April 25, 2007 - Bureau of National Affairs story highlights Moms v. FDA case and Brown’s warning that second round of litigation is coming unless FDA removes mercury fillings from the market
  • News from FDA Week: Watson & Burton want Congressional hearings on FDA; Consumers for Dental Choice demands FDA remove mercury fillings from market:
  • April 20, 2007 - The story in FDA Week -- the call for Congressional hearings
  • April 19, 2007 - Demand to FDA to end mercury fillings -- letter from Consumers for Dental Choice
  • April 14, 2007 - Court opinion in Moms v. FDA creates new options
  • April 9, 2007 - Brown warns FDA lawyers: If you retract FDA admissions, it means you are committing fraud on the Court
  • March 27, 2007 - We present our case to US Court of Appeals
  • March 19, 2007 - Moms Against Mercury v. FDA: US Court of Appeals to hear oral argument Mar 27
  • March 9, 2007 - Reply Brief
  • Dec. 11, 2006 - Brief Filed: lawsuit to stop FDA’s illegal approval of mercury fillings: Moms Against Mercury, et. al., v. FDA
  • April 27, 2006 - FDA sued, federal court asked to ban mercury fillings. The Petition: Moms Against Mercury v. Leavitt
    
  • March, 2007 - FDA admits, five times, that it doesn’t know if mercury fillings are safe
  • February, 2007 - Silver-mercury amalgam disclosure and informed consent by Michael D. Fleming, DDS - Dental Economics
  • Dec. 28, 2006 - FDA’s rogue bureaucracy to face intense scrutiny in ‘07
  • Nov. 14, 2006 - 2,000 Flood FDA reporting illnesses from mercury fillings but agency still claims secret pandemic is "rare"
    Oct. 30, 2006 - Special Controls of Draft Amalgam Regulation Disclose Zinc In Order to Cover Up the Mercury
  • Oct. 29, 2006 - Citizen Comments to FDA Due Nov. 9
  • Oct. 9, 2006 - Transcript: Scientific panels’ rejection, 13 - 7, of FDA staff’s false claim that mercury fillings are safe (3rd bullet on page). Also see: Advisory Meeting -Dental Products Panel
  • Sept. 14, 2006 - FDA panels repudiate staff position; IOAMT calls for immediate review of mercury dental fillings safety
  • Sept. 12, 2006 - Consumers to FDA: Panels’ repudiation of pro-mercury position necessitates re-evaluation of FDA position - letter to Associate Commissioner Randy Lutter
  • Sept. 8, 2006 - FDA staff wrong on the science--Charlie Brown interviewed on Deborah Ray show (Windows Media Audio File, requires broadband Internet)
  • Sept. 8, 2006 - FDA Advisors Find Holes in Report on Dental Fillings - Associated Press, Los Angeles Times
  • Sept. 7, 2006 - Two Scientific Panels Repudiate FDA Staff’s Pseudo-science, 13-7. Description of meeting, Sept. 7, 2006
  • Sept. 5, 2006 - Advocates to petition for ban to protect pregnant women from mercury tooth fillings - News Advisory
  • Sept. 5, 2006 - Petition to Ban Mercury Fillings for Pregnant Women filed with FDA
  • Advisory for Health and Science Media
  • August, 2006 - Mercury Amalgam – Unneeded, No Benefits, Not Legally Approved – and Absolutely Unjustified in the 21st Century - letter to FDA Public Record, re: Meeting on Neuro-toxicity of Dental Mercury
  • July 28, 2006 - Von Eschenbach heads for confirmation hearings while Center on Devices sabotages FDA policies by protecting mercury amalgam - letter to Associate Commissioner Randy Lutter
  • July 27, 2006 - Independent Scientists – you said you want a list to call, letter to Mr. Michael E. Adjodha, Center for Devices and Radiological Health
  • July 25, 2006 - Requests, Hearings of September 6 and 7, letter to Mr. Michael E. Adjodha, Center for Devices and Radiological Health
  • May 8, 2006 - Brown challenges FDA for OK'ing mercury fillings due to “belief” -- instead of scientific proof
  • April 27, 2006 - FDA sued, federal court asked to ban mercury fillings
  • April 27, 2006 - Consumers for Dental Choice says: Investigate FDA for mercury fillings cover-up
  
  
  • November 21, 2005 - Consumer Group Challenges FDA Policy Favoring Mercury Dental Fillings
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  • Consumers Keep Pressure on FDA to Open Investigation of Illegal Contract - January 2006:
    NIH still conducting in-house investigation by an independent CPA firm but FDA has yet to act.
  • Letter to FDA Special Agent Thomas Doyle - Nov. 2, 2005:
    Request to investigate FDA’s agreement with LSRO Inc. / BETAH Associates, including actions of LSRO, of BETAH, of CDRH’s Dental Devices Branch, and of its Director, Dr. Mary Susan Runner
  • Memorandum to FDA Office of Internal Affairs - Nov. 4, 2005:
    FDA’s LSRO/BETAH Contract
  • Letter to FDA Senior Advisor for Consumer Affairs - Nov. 8, 2005:
    Request that FDA Retract and Reissue the Dec. 2002 FDA Consumer Update on Amalgam
  • Citizen Petition to FDA - Nov. 9, 2005:
    Transfer Regulatory Responsibility from Dental Devices to General, Restorative, & Neurological Devices; transfer Classification Responsibility from Dental Products to Clinical Toxicology Devices Panel
  • Citizen Petition to FDA - Nov. 10, 2005:
    Withdraw Draft Regulation on Mercury Amalgam; To Proceed Is Contrary to Law, Science, and Public Policy – and Would Create a Gross Appearance of Impropriety
  • Letter to Associate Commissioner Lutter and other FDA officials - Nov. 12, 2005
  
  
  • December 9, 2004 - NIDCR, NIH and FDA funded a "Bogus" research project to Review And Analyze the Literature On the Potential Health Effects of Dental Amalgams. Conflict of interest superceeded objectivity in the contract and review process. The principal goal of this review was to evaluate the potential adverse human health effects of dental amalgam http://www.lsro.org/amalgam/frames_amalgam_general.html
    
    At the hands of federal governmental agencies (NIDCR and FDA) and their handpicked consultants, American families are being deceived by a report claiming a product is safe without also disclosing that an investigation is being conducted about the legality of that report and the contract underpinning it.
    
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  • 01.12.05 - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., responds to WebMD: "Why would WebMD, which professes to be "evidence-based", print such obvious idiocy easily exposed by even a freshmen in high school? Could it be that they are prejudiced against the idea of amalgam toxicity?"
  • 12.17.04 - Amalgam and Dental Shame - International Medical Veritas Association
  • 12.17.04 - Dr. Rashid A. Buttar lambastes WebMD: "Is there no limit to the extent of bastardization that one will commit in order to perpetuate a lie?....... How can you actually publish such rubbish? "
  • 12.12.04 - IAOMT/David Kennedy, DDS, responds to WebMD: "The Mercury Fillings: They're Not Risky article is so full of misinformation and false statements it is hard to know where to begin."
  • 12.12.04 - Professor Boyd Haley responds to WebMD: "NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH SCIENTIFICALLY."
    "...there was very little credible effort for truth exhibited by the NIDCR panel...convened to evaluate the toxic exposure to mercury from dental amalgams. See the incredible statement at the start of this article "Mercury Vapors not easily absorbed by body. NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH SCIENTIFICALLY".
  • 12.10.04 - Report backing mercury fillings faulted - The San Diego Union-Tribune
  • 12.09.04 - Study vindicates mercury fillings, Critics challenge validity of report - Atlanta-Journal
    12.09.04 - Letter from Charles Brown to Director Zerhouni -- to Dep. Dir. Kington, and to Ms. Servis -- re: deception on the public - premature release of a report on product safety -- MERCURY FILLINGS -- while an investigation of the contract and principals is occurring...directing NIDCR to advise the public that an investigation exists, so American families don't wrongly rely on this "independent" report.
  • 11.16.04 - Letter from Charles Brown to Director Zerhouni  apprising of NIDCR giving an illegal status report of confidential investigation to LSRO. 
  • 10.26.04 - Summary of the 16 issues involved in the investigation of NIDCR/FDA deal with LSRO & BETAH, and its cover letter to Elias H. Zerhouni, M.D. of Director of NIH.
  • 10.20.04 - Letter from Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg to Dr. Zerhouni, expressing his concern about the conflict of interest within NIDCR due to their close ties with the dental industry, possibly preventing objectivity in evaluating the health risks of dental amalgam.
  • 06.30.04 - NIDCR violates competitive bidding laws and continues cover-up of Mercury Fillings by handpicking tobacco consultant to do study. By Charlie Brown.
    - Please take a moment to write or call your US congress member regarding this taxpayer scam - NIH and FDA pick a tobacco industry consultant for a report that will justify the "safety" of Mercury fillings.

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  • November 28, 2004 - "POLITICIZED, MARGINALIZED AND TEMPORIZED. Some think it should be VAPORIZED." By Ann McFeatters
    
    
  • 2002-2003 - FDA Docket 03N-0169: "Dental Amalgam; Request for Information"
     In response to Consumer Report Feb., 2002 seeking studies that
    "shed light on the possible adverse health effects of dental amalgam in humans."  Only 300 reviewed.  www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/03-11648.html
    Purchase your own set of CD's with all submissions.


• EPA
  • Mercury Report 2/25/03, America's Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses. About 8% of women of reproductive age have potentially dangerous levels of mercury in their bodies.
  • Appox. 50% of pregnancies result in spontaneous abortions, birth defects, developmental disabilities, or other chronic health conditions.
  • Report shows risks to children from asthma, mercury, advances in protecting from lead and smoke 2/25/03
  • EPA funded study - Nat'l Institute of Sciences-Toxicological Effects of Mercury," 2000, pp. 304-332: Risk Characterization and Public Health Implications, Nat'l Academy Press 2000.
  • Illinois EPA Initiates Mercury collections and Educational Programs, 11/26/2002 PRESS RELEASE, Springfield, Ill


• NIH/NIDCR
  
  • We petition the United States Inspector-General to investigate Lawrence Tabak and end the pattern of corruption at NIH's dental arm. - December, 2007
  • RULING by US Ofc of Human Research Protections: Govt-paid researchers did not give informed consent about harm from mercury fillings at Casa Pia, the Portuguese orphanage. We seek remedy for the children. - September, 2007
  • 3 Strikes & NIH’s Dental Chief Should Be Out: Help us get the man who funded the outrageous experiment on the Portuguese orphans fired. - September, 2007
  • Feds investigating mercury fillings experiments on Portuguese orphans and New England low-income children - July 5, 2005 (PDF)
  • NIDCR's $11 Million Experiment on Children
    (to prove the "null hypothesis" that mercury amalgam dental fillings do not cause adverse health effects in children)
    Critique of the Children's Amalgam Study Consent Forms by Sandy Duffy, Esq. - March 1, 2004 (PDF)
    
  
  
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control
  • Mar 2001, Blood and Hair Mercury Levels in Young Children and Women of Childbearing Age, United States, 1999.
  • National Center for Environmental Health, National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, 2001.
  • Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals