Health Protection Agency (ex Public Health Laboratory Service) http://www.phls.co.uk/
Health Protection Agency, Local and Regional Services. The HPA is the new Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS), the agency which partners pharmaceutical companies in the production of vaccines and has a wide range of commercial involvements with these companies. The PHLS added its name to a condemnation of Wakefield in 2001 when he published Through a Glass Darkly. The paper suggested that MMR had not been sufficiently well tested for safety. The Complainant Brian Deer, the ABPI, Medico Legal Investigations and Dr Andrew Wakefield by Martin Walker MA for CryShame