MONKEY COURT (Frank Pallone Appreciation Thread)

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8. Just learned this for which I strongly applaud Rep. Pallone, contrary to Offit's view.

http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/03/from-the-editor.html

From the Editor: Thank Frank

Did you notice Rep. Frank Pallone, D-NJ, speaking out at the Obamacare hearing? He's the one whose FDA Modernization Act found the FDA "asleep at the switch" on thimerosal in 1999. Thanks, Frank!

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp078187?query=TOC&

Perspective
Thimerosal and Vaccines — A Cautionary Tale

Paul A. Offit, M.D.
N Engl J Med 2007; 357:1278-1279September 27, 2007DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp078187

In 1997, Frank Pallone, a U.S. congressman from New Jersey, attached a simple, 133-word amendment to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reauthorization bill. This amendment gave the FDA 2 years to “compile a list of drugs and foods that contain intentionally introduced mercury compounds and [to] provide a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the mercury compounds in the list.”1 The bill — the FDA Modernization Act of 1997 — was signed into law on November 21, 1997. Neither the press nor the public took notice...