United Nations Urged to Ban Mercury in Vaccines

SILVER SPRING, Md., April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CoMeD – While the United Nations (UN) actively questions the use of vaccines containing a neurotoxic mercury compound, the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs [1] (CoMeD), a Maryland-based, non-profit organization, is urging the UN to ban it.

In mid-March, governments were asked to send the UN secretariat "information on mercury use in pharmaceuticals, especially vaccines."   The request [2] was made in preparation for the United Nations Environmental Programme's third intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC3) [3] on mercury, scheduled for this fall.  The purpose of the INC meetings is to develop a legally-binding, global mercury treaty by 2013.

CoMeD [1] was pleased by this call for information because CoMeD provided scientific data about health hazards caused by mercury in vaccines to various international delegates at the second INC meeting [4] in January in Chiba, Japan.

Since then, CoMeD [1] has publicized new studies proving that the mercury in vaccines [5] and dental amalgams, or "silver" fillings [6], is associated with neurological diseases [7] such as autism [8] in children and Alzhe

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