Thimerosal and Vaccines - A Cautionary Tale

In 1997, Frank Pallone, a U.S. congressman from New Jersey, attached a simple, 133-word amendment to a Food and Drug Administration reauthorization bill. This amendment gave the FDA 2 years to ?compile a list of drugs and foods that contain intentionally introduced mercury compounds and [to] provide a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the mercury compounds in the list.?1 The bill ? the FDA Modernization Act of 1997 ? was signed into law on November 21, 1997.

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