However, mercury is a toxic heavy metal, and mercury has only been used in clinical thermometers if protected from breakage of the tube.
The proposed directive will prohibit outright the placing on the market of clinical thermometers containing mercury, the reason being that alternatives to them have been available for some time.
Hospital equipment such as dentists' chairs, operating tables, special furniture, clinical thermometers, surgical glassware and surgical bandages are exempt.
It is an optional directive and there is no obligation that all clinical thermometers should be tested.
His professional opinion was that there never had been any problem with clinical thermometers.
It has the warm approval of the manufacturers of clinical thermometers.
One could reduce his temperature and even briefly get a normal reading on a clinical thermometer, but one would not have cured the disease.
They are clinical thermometer testers, typists or charwomen.
