CDC FAILURE TO REMOVE MERCURY FROM VACCINES
 

Advocates for Children's Health Affected by Mercury Poisoning
“By Parents, For Our Children”

“...in recent months, these parents have used their numbers, their passion and their

organizing skills to become a potent national force." NY Times, page A1  6/25/05

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Joins A-CHAMP Demand
for Senate Investigation of CDC’s Failure
to Remove Mercury From Vaccines

Newly Disclosed Documents Show CDC
Ignored Industry Offers of Mercury-free Vaccines
Despite Agency’s Own Safety Warning

New York, NY - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. today joined Advocates for Children’s Health Affected by Mercury Poisoning (A-CHAMP), in demanding Senate investigations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) obstruction in removing mercury from children’s vaccines. This joint announcement comes following the disclosure of correspondence showing the agency declined the opportunity to provide mercury-free vaccines within months of the 1999 recommendation by the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to remove the neurotoxin thimerosal (mercury) from pediatric vaccines "as soon as possible." You can read the HERE.

Newly obtained documents reveal that three weeks after the PHS/AAP statement, SmithKline Beecham (SB), now GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), sent a letter to the CDC echoing thimerosal worries, and indicated that the DTaP vaccine was of particular concern. The vaccine maker offered a partial solution with thimerosal-free Infanrix, stating that it could be produced to meet the U.S. demand at least through the first half of 2000, bringing the AAP, CDC, and PHS "much closer to their stated objectives of thimerosal free vaccines in the U.S." You can read the HERE.

The CDC’s response in November, 1999 declined SB’s offer, indicating it would "continue to provide the States with a choice among currently licensed brands of DTaP." You can read the HERE.

"The CDC failed to make child safety its priority", said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "When manufacturers offered to supply vaccines that could substantially reduce the amount of mercury infants and children were given via vaccination, the agency basically said ‘thanks but no thanks.’ The Senate must fulfill its oversight responsibility to determine the propriety of the CDC’s actions after the discovery that mercury content in vaccines exceeded safety guidelines, placing children at risk of neurological injury."

Regarding the CDC’s apparent failure to heed its own mandate to provide safer pediatric vaccines, A-CHAMP Vice President Bobbie Manning commented, "Even when handed the opportunity to prevent unnecessary mercury exposure, this agency failed its obligation to keep children out of harm’s way."

A-CHAMP has provided substantial evidence to Senate and Congressional offices over the last year regarding thimerosal toxicity and the CDC’s handling of relevant data. "We have been patiently waiting for action," said John Gilmore, A-CHAMP Board Member. "If Congress does not respond, parents will mount a campaign for an independent investigation of CDC conflicts of interest that permitted an entire generation of children to be injured."

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Read Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Opinion piece, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Time for CDC to Come Clean" on the Huffington Post HERE:  http://tinyurl.com/rzbz6

To Read RFK Jr.'s Rolling Stone Article on the Thimerosal scandal, "Deadly Immunity Click HERE.

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