Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are set to vote on June 26 on whether to recommend that the CDC remove thimerosal from influenza vaccines, raising hopes from people who have long advocated for eliminating the preservative.
“We are hopeful that the consideration of thimerosal will spark a thorough discussion that it deserves, hopefully leading to its removal from all vaccines,” Brian Hooker, chief scientific officer for the Children’s Health Defense organization, told The Epoch Times via email.
Thimerosal, approximately 50 percent mercury by weight, has been used in vaccines since the 1930s.
Concerns that the preservative could cause health problems resulted in a congressionally mandated 1999 review that concluded that some infants might be exposed to levels of mercury above recommended guidelines from the Environmental Protection Agency….