And Big Pharma keeps hoping no one notices this peer reviewed,
journal published paper, which I will remark on and then proceed to
quote the very last paragraph.
Once you read this paper, you realize that once again we have
been lied to by industry - the amounts of mercury are higher than
we are told!
http://jcm.asm.org/content/2/6/549.full.pdf+html?view=long&pmid=1420
VOL.
2,
1975
The overall average amount of thimerosal retained by the
desiccated products was 92% of the amount found
in the liquid product. It is likely that the percent
retained would have been slightly higher if it had
been possible to accurately restore (quantum
sufficient) the samples to original volume instead
of adding diluent equivalent to the original
fill-volume.
The data reported here and in previous reports (2,
3) indicate that a large percentage of formaldehyde,
phenol, and mercurial preservatives is retained
by biological products during the usual lyophilization
process. (On edit: lyophilization is the process of freeze
drying the vaccine material)
These preservatives are not proportionally removed
with the liquid portion of the product as
might be expected. Investigators should be cautious
when using preserved and lyophilized biological
products in preservative-sensitive systems.
Caution should also be exercised with products
intended for certain immunological uses, as these
preservatives evidently concentrate in the
micro-environment of lyophilized antigenic
material, which could denature the antigen.
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