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Mercury-Free Health Care — Toward the Tipping Point

Summary

Health Care Without Harm and the World Health Organization have issued a two-year progress report on their global Mercury-Free Health Care Initiative. The report provides positive examples of dozens of countries from around the world moving toward mercury-free health care.

Entitled Toward the Tipping Point: WHO-HCWH Global Initiative to Substitute Mercury-Based Medical Devices in Health Care, the progress report finds that: “Momentum is growing and mercury-free health care is increasingly becoming the status quo in many countries. The Global Initiative is moving closer to a tipping point that will shift the dynamics of supply and demand in the global thermometer and blood pressure device markets away from mercury and toward the alternatives.”