Mercury Amalgams vs. Breathing Particulates or Eating Fish?

How great is the contribution of Mercury from dental amalgams vs. breathing particulates or eating fish??

Why is FDA so afraid to alert consumers to the possibility that amalgams contribute to total body mercury levels and that combined with eating fish, which they refuse to require adequate labeling there also, means that consumers have no knowledge why they have so many health issues in their family.

It seems that the experts will disagree, as to how much mercury in our body is from coal burning for power plants that settles in oceans and comes up in the food chain vs. how much is in the particulates we breath, which in one study in San Francisco was shown to be over 30% of all the total body burden of mercury. Breathing particulates carrying mercury is the major contributor or merely the second largest contributor may vary from research paper to research paper and be somewhat related to environmental circumstances of the patient group being studied.

We are very confident, however, that there is no safe level for lead or mercury and that there are serious synergies in their toxic effects on our health. It will come to pass someday that patients will know how much is in vaccines, amalgams, fish, and air they breathe and or water they bath in and in all of the many contributors to our body burdens of lead and mercury, which becomes complex as when we are born we are already loaded with them so there is no easy way out.

So I believe the day will come that everyone will consume oral chelators or improved Zeolite products daily and they will be as available as salt and pepper wherever we eat.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
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FDA’s Mercury Ruling Defies ALL Scientific Reasoning
by Dr. Mercola
August 22 2009
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/22/FDA-has-the-Audacity-to-Claim-Mercury-is-Completely-Harmless.aspx

In the video above I speak with Charles Brown, legal counsel for the Consumers for Dental Choice, which is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to educate the public about the health and environmental dangers of mercury fillings, and to ensure more effective government oversight on amalgam. Charles discusses the processes he’s been undertaking for the last 10 years to get dangerous mercury fillings removed from the market, and brings you up to speed on where we are today with the FDA’s most recent, atrocious ruling.
The U.S. FDA has issued a final regulation classifying dental amalgam without calling for stringent precautions for pregnant women and children — even though last June a court settlement filed by the Consumers for Dental Choice required the FDA to withdraw claims of mercury amalgam’s safety from its Web site and issue an advisory indicating:
“Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses.”
Instead, the FDA has classified the fillings as class II devices, meaning the agency is claiming that they are completely harmless. This stands in direct contradiction of the conclusions of the FDA’s own panel of scientific experts, and the findings of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT).
In fact, mercury dental fillings contribute 2 to 3 times as much mercury to the human body as all dietary and environmental sources combined. IAOMT is urging the FDA to change the ruling, ban dental amalgam from commerce and issue a mandatory recall on the product.

Charles Brown says:
“FDA broke its contract and broke its word that it would put warnings for children and unborn children for neurological damage. Bowing to the dental products industry, FDA for the first time in its history pulled a warning about neurological harm to children.”
“This contemptuous attitude toward children and the unborn will not go unanswered,” said Brown.  “We will see FDA in court.”
Vapors from dental mercury go into the human body. Due to mercury waste, amalgam is also increasingly targeted by environmentalists. Amalgam has also become controversial because the middle-class has largely moved to non-toxic alternatives while the poor, minorities, and institutional recipients, such as soldiers and prisoners, still get mercury amalgam.

Sources:

Medical News Today July 29, 2009

International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology Press Release (PDF)

International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology Position Paper on Dental Amalgam (PDF)