No amount of mercury is insignificant when directly injected into the body of an infant, young child or pregnant woman. ATLANTA, Oct. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — SafeMinds applauds UNEP’s draft treaty language which does not exempt the use of mercury in pharmaceutical products, including vaccines, from the global ban. Governmental regulators, public health officials and pharmaceutical companies […]
WHO worries mercury treaty could affect costs, availability of vaccines
By: Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press The World Health Organization is trying to fend off an effort to include a mercury derivative used in vaccines from being banned in a global treaty on mercury currently under negotiation. The next round of talks for the proposed binding treaty begin on Oct. 31, and the Geneva-based UN health […]
