A new strategy will focus heavily on controlling black market flows, leveraging a decision to phase-out dental amalgam.
GENEVA (AN) — The Minamata Convention on Mercury plans to shift its main focus from product regulation to enforcement and dismantling the illicit trade networks of toxic chemicals.
Officials told a news conference on Monday, following the conclusion of the sixth Conference of the Parties last week, that the new strategy will concentrate heavily on controlling black market flows, leveraging COP-6's decision to ratify the 2034 phase-out of dental amalgam.
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The decision on dental amalgam was counterbalanced by the greater challenge of artisanal and small-scale gold mining.
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