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What are Washington’s legal limits on mercury in vaccines?
As of July 1, 2007, Washington State law requires that pregnant women and
children under 3 years of age be given vaccines that have no more than 0.5
micrograms of mercury per 0.5 milliliter dose. The law makes an exception for
mercury content of influenza vaccine and allows pregnant women and children
under age three to get influenza vaccine if it has 1.0 microgram of mercury per
0.5 milliliter dose, or less. Your doctor or nurse can help explain the size of
these amounts.
The law also states that in the case of an outbreak or vaccine shortage, the
Secretary of the Department of Health may suspend the law’s mercury limits for
the duration of that outbreak or shortage.
Sheri
Washington OKs mercury in swine flu vaccine
Originally published Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 1:38 PM
The state Health Department will allow more mercury than usual in some of the
swine flu vaccine to make sure shots are available to pregnant women and
children under three.
The Associated Press
OLYMPIA, Wash.
The state Health Department will allow more mercury than usual in some of the
swine flu vaccine to make sure shots are available to pregnant women and
children under three.
The department says mercury-free swine flu vaccine may not always be in stock,
so it wants to give people the choice of using vaccine with the mercury
preservative called thimerosal. While thimerosal is believed to be safe, most
vaccines for children under six are thimerosal-free.
The suspension of the mercury limit announced Thursday lasts six months and
applies only to the swine flu vaccine expected to become available in October.