In “July 1999, the Public Health Service agencies (PHS), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and vaccine manufacturers agreed to reduce or eliminate the amount of thimerosal contained in vaccines in order to reduce overall exposure to mercury-containing products.”
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Modernization Act of 1997 was passed November 24, 2997 and required the FDA to review and assess the possible health risks associated with exposure to all mercury-containing food and drugs, including vaccines, “because certain forms of organic mercury are known to be harmful”. [1, 2]
“The FDA review concluded that use of thimerosal [which contains ethylmercury] as a preservative in vaccines might result in the intake of mercury during the first 6 months of life in amounts that exceed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines for methylmercury, but not that of the FDA, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, or the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.
Although thimerosal contains ethylmercury, the federal safety standards are based on information about methylmercury, which is believed to be the more toxic form of mercury. [Meaning they’ve never studied thimerosal except a 1920’s trial where everyone died!]
The 1954 the polio vaccine trialed by Jonas Salk contained “a mercury compound patented as Merthiolate, which was used to prevent mold growing and to prolong the shelf life”, he removed it from the 1955 manufacture, to make the vaccine more “antigenic”[pg 274]
Documentary Trace Amounts – WATCH