Mercury in Hepatitis B Vaccine
by: Paul G. King, PhD President, FAME Systems
http://www.ashotoftruth.org/mercury-hepatitis-b-vaccine
Lacking the ability to analyze the current vaccines for either their total mercury content (typically less than 0.000001 % [< 10 ppb]), the FDA website and the manufacturer's package inserts claim that all of the hepatitis-B-containing vaccines marketed in the USA (currently) do not contain any thimerosal in their manufacturing process.
In January 2007, the last trace-thimerosal-containing vaccines that contained hepatitis B as an active started being replaced by the then approved no-thimerosal hepatitis-B-containing vaccines.
Since the expiration dates for vaccines do not exceed 5 years and typically are 2 years, the last in-date hepatitis-B-containing vaccines that contained a trace (< 1 microgram of mercury per dose) should have expired in 2012 if not earlier with most doses of the trace-thimerosal-hepatitis-B-containing vaccines probably expiring in the 2009-2010 time frame.
However, I cannot speak for hepatitis B vaccines imported into the USA from other countries (e.g., Mexico and Canada) and used to vaccinate residents in the USA.
DTaP-HepB-IPV |
Pediarix (GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals) |
Free | Never contained more than a Trace of Thimerosal, approval date for thimerosal-free formulation 1/29/2007 |
Hepatitis B |
Recombivax HB (Merck & Co, Inc.) |
Free | 08/27/99 |
Engerix B (GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals) |
Free | 03/28/00, approval date for thimerosal-free formulation 1/30/2007 | |
Hib/Hepatitis B combination | |||
Comvax (Merck & Co, Inc.) |
Free | Never contained Thimerosal |