Originally published in icon Issue 1 2007
Michele Payne of DAMS is one of the voices leading a push to have a national petition signed and delivered to Number 10.
And well she might. Mercury is regarded as so dangerous in France that it requires tankers with a double skin and police outriders to transport it. Yet in the UK we use it in dental fillings and in about three quarters of our vaccines. About 5 years ago 83 of the top 100 vaccines in the US had a mercury-based carrier. The FDA asked companies to remove it – the figure fell to 75. Surely, if it is dangerous, it is dangerous! There are already reported links to autism in children.
Go to http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/mercury