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Items compiled from Tribune news services
Published September 8, 2006WASHINGTON, D.C.
Government health advisers rejected a federal report that concluded dental fillings used by millions
of patients are safe, saying further study of the mercury-laden amalgam is needed.
A Food and Drug Administration panel did not declare "silver fillings" unsafe. But in a 13-7 vote
Thursday, the advisers said the federal report didn't objectively and clearly present the current
state of knowledge about the fillings.
The FDA had asked the panel of outside advisers to weigh the report, a review of 34 recent research
studies.
The report had found "no significant new information" that would change the FDA's earlier
determination about the risk of mercury-based fillings, which dentists have used since the 1800s
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