SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ –
CoMeD – On Friday, July 22, 2011, the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) distributed a
revised text for its comprehensive global treaty on mercury.
Advocates for mercury-free drugs were gratified to see
pharmaceuticals listed in “Annex C (Mercury-added product not
allowed)” of the proposed treaty.
The Coalition for Mercury-free
Drugs (CoMeD) helped
initiate this addition through its advocacy efforts at the United
Nations (UN) negotiations held in Chiba, Japan, in January
2011. CoMeD
President Rev. Lisa Sykes, the mother of a son diagnosed with
vaccine-related mercury poisoning, described to representatives of
over 150 participating nations how: “… unnecessarily
injecting mercury into pregnant women and children, as part of a
vaccine or other drug, is an ongoing and often unrecognized
crisis.”
Thimerosal (49.6% mercury by weight),
still used as a vaccine preservative and in-process sterilizing
agent, is an unnecessary, and sometimes undisclosed, component
in many vaccines. Its use is associated with neurodevelopmental
disorders, cancer, birth def
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