FDA Proposes Dangerous Vaccine Rule Change

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The FDA’s proposed change to Requirements for Constituent Materials was quietly published in The Federal Register on March 30 and the deadline for public comment is only days away - on Monday, June 28. ²

The FDA is arguing that the rule change is necessary to “reduce burdens on industry” and to provide “greater flexibility and reduced regulatory requirements.” It gives one FDA staff Director the power to give drug companies the green light to “employ advances in science and technology as they become available” when companies want to make new vaccines really fast and get more bang for the buck.

If the proposed Rule Change is put into effect, a vaccine manufacturer could request a change in the content or amount of vaccine ingredients by simply writing a “brief statement describing the basis for the request and supporting data” as part of the original license application or for a pending or approved application. There is no information about how much scientific evidence the drug companies will have to submit to prove the new ingredients are safe; or whether the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee will be able to review that evidence; or whether the American public will have a chance to comment before vaccine ingredients are changed.

This does not look like the transparency, public participation and collaboration in government that President Obama said he supports. ³ It removes the checks and balances necessary for good government.

Last year when federal health officials declared a pandemic H1N1 “swine flu” national emergency, drug companies put a full court press on the FDA to fast track licensure of highly reactive oil based squalene adjuvants ⁴ and the use of new technology, like insect cells, ⁵ to make pandemic influenza vaccines. During meetings of the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee, the National Vaccine Information Center opposed both the quick licensure of squalene adjuvants, ⁶ which hyperstimulate the immune system and have been associated with autoimmunity, ^7 8 9 10 and the use of insect cells, ¹¹ which could be contaminated with insect viruses. ^12 13 14

Neither technology was licensed by the FDA last year ^15 16 but there are tens of thousands of doses of squalene that the federal government bought and is stored in warehouses waiting to be used. ¹⁷ If the proposed Rule Change goes into effect, will drug companies be able to put those doses of squalene in flu vaccines by getting only one FDA employee to say “yes?” This and other risks to health are waiting for the American people if drug companies can get quick approval from one person to raise the amount of mercury,^18 19 aluminum ^{20 21 22 23} or residual protein in vaccines, ^24 25 which have been associated with chronic inflammation, brain and immune system damage. ²⁶

This summer the American people are watching the horrifying consequences of inadequate federal regulation of the oil industry play out in the oil soaked Gulf coast. There are legitimate questions being asked about the cozy relationship and financial conflicts of interest between federal agency regulators and big oil companies partnering with the U.S. Government to generate billions of dollars for the U.S. Treasury. ²⁷ Calls for an independent federal safety oversight agency to monitor offshore drilling are being made in congressional hearings.

NVIC has been calling for an independent vaccine safety oversight agency free from financial and ideological conflicts of interest ²⁸ since Congress passed a law in 1997 allowing drug companies to pay the FDA to fast track licensure of new vaccines and drugs. ^29 30  During the last decade, that fast track system has seen scores of risky drugs like Vioxx and reactive vaccines like Gardasil quickly licensed, only to be followed by tragic reports of deaths and injuries. ^31 32

While federal health officials are spending millions of dollars of taxpayer money to persuade every American from infancy through the last year of life to take a flu shot every year, ³³ and hundreds of new vaccines are now in clinical trials, ^34 35 it is no time for the FDA to make it easier for drug companies to put whatever they want in vaccines. Giving absolute power to one FDA employee, who reports to unelected political appointees, who could be subjected to heavy pressure from Big Pharma lobbyists, is not the way to regulate vaccines for safety.

If you want to make your voice heard and tell the FDA Commissioner, President Obama and your elected congressional representatives in Washington, D.C. what you think about the proposed rule change making it easier for drug companies to put whatever potentially dangerous ingredients they want to in vaccines, take action now. Remember, you only have until this Monday, June 28 to take action. 

It’s your health, Your family. Your choice. Help send a strong message to Washington that it is time for government to stop partnering with the pharmaceutical industry and RAISE the safety bar for drug companies enjoying congressionally mandated liability protection while making big profits from selling government mandated vaccines.  

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9 Responses to "FDA Proposes Dangerous Vaccine Rule Change"

Jonathan Gray

Posted: 6/22/2010 3:46:31 PM

Sounds to me like we don't REALLY need an FDA -- if there's no actual "Agency" doing the job of monitoring and approving Food or Drug authorization. A single person is not an agency. The system is to do things by Democratic approval whereby a consensus of a larger number of scientists put their necks on the line about the safety of any food or drug prior to general public consumption. It is FAR easier to find a single, lone person willing to pocket private gains and hide their reasons than it is when a larger number of mostly honest people are involved. Even in a group with dishonest elements included, it is harder for them to get away with things because it is so broadly known or approved. That's the reason we use committee approved system -- a consensus method.

Mitchell Andersen

Posted: 6/22/2010 8:51:17 PM

Merck absolutely is not following good safety protocols in appropriately giving vaccines. They are guilty of generalizing medical work which requires us to demand correct implementation or cease and desist. I happened to be a personal casualty of a vaccine in which they failed to provide a vaccine information statement so I had to personally search for the V.I.S. from the only other vaccine manufacturer in the United States. WOOPS, Merck, I suddenly had the same symptoms that were listed as potential side affects by the other drug company. Shortly, I find the Merck V.I.S. which stated 'if you have difficulties after you take the vaccine, see a DR. Wow, tells me a lot about how to handle a dire emergency health situation. The point is that Merck has a poor research arm because the F.D.A. is not monitoring medical applications at government level and Merck knows it can get away with no overview so we know they do the bare minimum. The trouble is I was 34 years old and how can a child be put in a poor health position at a young age for life due to sloppy reasoning of one person in the F.D.A. The appropriate thing we must do besides placing Merck out of business, for poor technical/medical practices is to demand and increase the budget for a F.D.A. team to monitor drugs such as this and not 1 person.

Connie

Posted: 6/23/2010 1:08:37 AM

I'll take my chances without Vaccines. Enough! We've had enough of these vaccines! No more..we're done!

Sara

Posted: 6/23/2010 7:51:00 AM

I don't really see any difference with this rule change. Aluminum has never been proved safe for injection, but its in there. Peanut oil, not listed as an ingredient - in there. Pig virus - in there. Squalene adjuvants already used in other countries, precedent set. And when has the so-called Vaccine Advisory Committee ever met a vaccine or an ingredient it didn't like? Mass parental refusal of ALL vaccines is the only way to stop this dangerous joke of a 'health safety' program.

Kathy Blanco

Posted: 6/23/2010 1:02:26 PM

Why would any company want regulation, when regulation costs them money and time. Drug companies haver never cared about our health, evidence shows they want us chronically ill, with autoimmunity, immune dysregulation, and infected by biological agents which perpetuate diseases. One FDA employee, who can be influenced by any drug company? I don't call this america, the land of the free anymore! Only mass refusals of vaccines will stir companies to make products safer, until then, safe vaccines is a misnomer. All ingredients in vaccines are carcinogenic, ongocenic, autoimmune initiators, toxic and neutropic. We learned our lessons, enough is enough. Get the pharma lobbyist out of our government, and big industry. Our government should never be beholden to these special interest groups. Their influence is ruining America's health. Especially our CHILDREN!

Dr. Helen Andrews

Posted: 6/23/2010 10:33:41 PM

Here we go again! Business as usual. "When will they ever learn? When will they learn?

JT

Posted: 6/28/2010 4:21:23 AM

Just curious as to why this legislation was promoted in March with a June 28 deadline and this video just came out June 21...

Linda Jones

Posted: 6/28/2010 6:19:31 PM

Apparently none of those people "pocketing the money" ever had a reaction to the vaccines. Well, I have! I took an MMR vaccine and I can tell you from my own experience that thimerosal and the other unknown bacteria and toxins in vaccines are deadly! I've been living with the results of these toxins for over 15 years and they have almost destroyed my health! What's so interesting about that is NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO ME OR ANY OF THE OTHER VACCINE VICTIMS! It's all about the money!

Nicole

Posted: 7/16/2010 10:30:56 AM

Any idea when this will be voted on now that we are past the deadline for public comments?