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- Title
Thimerosal and Animal Brains.
- Authors
Barrett, Julia R.
- Abstract
This article focuses on an animal study showing methylmercury to be an inadequate reference for ethylmercury due to significant differences in tissue distribution, clearance rates, and ratios of organic to inorganic mercury in the brain. Since the 1930s, vaccines have contained thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that breaks down to ethylmercury and thiosalicylate in the body. By some calculations, children given the usual schedule of vaccines containing thimerosal receive ethylmercury in doses exceeding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's guidelines for methyl-mercury, a known neurotoxicant.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ORGANOMERCURY compounds; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANOMETALLIC compounds; ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis; ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring; ENVIRONMENTAL risk assessment; ENVIRONMENTAL health
- Publication
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2005, Vol 113, Issue 8, pA543
- ISSN
0091-6765
- Publication type
Article