Hearing this news makes me sick. The FDA have so much to answer for! And now they dare to pressure suppliers to quit selling DMSA.

I am thankful that according to Cutler, DMSA is not essential. Though personally I think the stuff it brilliant (when taken correctly). I had an enormous help from it in clearing MUCH mercury out of my body. I have had bad experiences with it too, but mainly from slipping up on how I used it and having a severe candida condition that I was not treating at the time.

Even though it is claimed it does not chelate brain/organ mercury. I wonder if it does have at least "some" ability with organs - because I am doubtful my improvements from it would have occured simply from reducing blood levels - since I was using it for a long time and years past amalgam removal. I was well on my way to healing from mercury and I attribute alot of that to DMSA (as well as own efforts with diet and exercise and supplements).

Andy Cutler does say that those who do not want to use DMSA, can't afford it, or don't respond well to it, can just wait out the first few months and let the blood mercury reduce naturally. And they can simply take alpha lipoic acid after the blood levels have reduced to chelate their mercury.

So I'm in hopes that ALA will always be available!