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FDA/EPA Misses Boat on Fish-Based Mercury Warning

 

FDA/EPA Misses Boat on Fish-Based Mercury Warning; Toxicology Professor

Charges Industry, Not Safety, Controls FDA Mercury Policy

3/25/2004 10:30:00 AM

 

 

WASHINGTON, March 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- SafeMinds-America's leading

scientific organization investigating the risks that mercury-containing

medical products pose to our children-has issued the following response to

the recent joint warning issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The warning advised women of

childbearing age or who were pregnant, and young children to avoid consuming

certain fish known to be high in mercury content because of the risk it

would pose to their health. In response Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN, NP, president

of SafeMinds, stated:

" The FDA's continues to perpetuate contradictory policies regarding

mercury-containing products.

" Over the past several weeks we have once again been warned by government

officials to avoid incidental ingestion of mercury through products that

absorb the toxin from the environment, but the FDA remains deafeningly

silent on the far more serious threat posed by the concentrated levels of

the same toxic metal that are being injected into our babies through common

vaccines.

" The FDA's continued unwillingness to definitively act to remove Thimerosal

mercury from vaccines begs the question of how widespread Vas Aposhian's

charge that 'industry' dictates FDA policy, not science and safety, should

be considered. (W.Post 3/20/04 M.Kaufman.)

" It certainly seems odd that the FDA would issue a warning over the 15

micrograms found in a tuna fish sandwich, when they continue to ignore the

fact that during 1990s infants were routinely given nearly five times that

amount at one doctor's appointment, and up to 187.5 micrograms of mercury

the first six months of life. To this day, our children are injected with

nearly double the amount of mercury found in tuna in a single flu vaccine

injection.

" This raw data alone-not to mention the exhaustive research SafeMinds has

published on the topic- should be enough to prompt a total ban of Thimerosal

by the FDA, who has, to date, been apathetic at best on this grave matter. "

http://www.usnewswire.com/

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