World's Governments Sign Mercury Treaty - Mercury Free Health Care by 2020

Kumamoto - Japan — As the world’s governments were signing a global treaty aimed at phasing out the use and emissions of mercury, Health Care Without Harm and the World Health Organization got straight to work and launched an initiative to achieve the Minamata Convention’s goal to end the manufacture, import and export of mercury-based medical devices by 2020

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Signing Ceremony, Minamata Convention on Mercury.  Representative of Cambodia signs the treaty