SafeMinds Applauds Action by House to Protect Children from Neurotoxin

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SafeMinds Applauds Action by House to Protect Children from Neurotoxin; New

Legislation Comes on Heels of CDC Admission to Lack of Proper Planning, Despite

Research and Warnings

 

4/5/2004 1:24:00 PM

 

 

National Desk, Health Reporter

 

Contact: Joe Giganti, 703-928-9695 or Joe, for SafeMinds,

Web site: http://www.SafeMinds.org

 

 

 

 

 

WASHINGTON, April 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- SafeMinds -- America's leading scientific

organization investigating the risks that mercury-containing medical products

pose to our children -- joins NoMercury.org and the Mercury Policy Project in

applauding the introduction of HR 4169 by U.S. Reps. Dave Weldon, M.D. (R-Fla.)

and Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y), a bipartisan bill that would remove vaccines that

contain Thimerosal mercury from the market.

 

" We are very grateful to Dr. Weldon and Congresswoman Maloney for introducing

this bill, which will take the necessary steps to protect our children from

mercury-containing vaccines, " said Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN, NP, president of

SafeMinds. " It has been our long-held fear that our federal health agencies lack

the desire or will to fulfill their duty in this matter, and the recent

testimony of the CDC before the U.S. House appears to have confirmed that

belief. "

 

The introduction of this new bill and Redwood's comments come in response to

testimony by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

director to the House Committee on Appropriations where Dr. Julie Louise

Gerberding openly testified to the agency's continued lack of planning and

action regarding certain vaccines that contain mercury.

 

" In 1999 and 2001 the FDA and IOM, respectively, urged manufacturers to remove

thimerosal from infant vaccines and said that children and pregnant women should

avoid Thimerosal, " said Michael Bender, Director of the Mercury Policy Project.

" The CDC should not be trying to roll back the clock and keep America's children

vulnerable to mercury. "

 

" Five years of CDC, FDA, EPA and NIH inaction in the face of scientific evidence

detailing the dangers mercury poses to our children, has forced Congress to step

in because these agencies have failed to fulfill their obligation to prevent

further damage to our children, " stated Alan Clark, M.D., of the Missouri-based

NoMercury.org.

 

" SafeMinds plans on making its scientific research on this matter available to

interested members of Congress so they can be fully educated on this bill and

the dangers with Thimerosal (mercury), " offered Redwood. " Frankly, it should

have been a no- brainer decision to stop injecting our infants with a lethal

toxic chemical, but apparently it wasn't to the CDC. "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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