Vaccine Development
National Group Supports Removing Mercury From Vaccines
Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 21st, 2001
The nation's oldest and largest vaccine safety advocacy organization, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), called the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report evaluating whether mercury preservatives in vaccines have caused developmental delays in children a confirmation that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were justified in ordering drug companies remove mercury from childhood vaccines in 1999.
Although the IOM's Immunization Safety Review Committee concluded there is not enough evidence to prove or disprove the hypothesis that mercury-containing vaccines have caused children to develop learning disabilities...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2001-11-21)
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