Why is one of mercury’s most dangerous applications—human vaccines—exempted from the ban? An update to our recent report.
A week of complex discussions in
Geneva ended with governments from around the world agreeing to a
global, legally binding treaty to limit mercury use. The Minamata Convention on Mercury,
named after the Japanese city where thousands of residents fell ill
with mercury poisoning in the 1950s, bans the production, export, and
import by 2020 of a wide range of products and processes where mercury
is used or released.
Products include implantable medical
devices, switches and relays, certain fluorescent lamps, soaps and
cosmetics, and some medical devices such as thermometers and blood
pressure devices. Mercury-added dental amalgams are also to be phased
out.
What’s exempted? Products used for
military and civil protection; those with no mercury-free alternative;
those used in religious or traditional practices; and vaccines in which
the organomercury compound thimerosal, about which we have written about extensively, is used as a preservative.
Read more: http://www.anh-usa.org/global-treaty-will-nix-mercurybut-not-in-vaccines/
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