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Gary Null: The UN’s Mercury Treaty Favors Corporate Wealth Over Children’s Health

Jan 30th, 2013 @ 10:41 am › prnadmin
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The UN’s Mercury Treaty Favors Corporate Wealth Over Children’s Health

Gary Null and Richard Gale

Progressive Radio Network, January 30, 2013

After almost four years of demanding negotiations, the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) announced that 140 nations reached agreement to begin ratifying the Minamata Convention on Mercury. The Convention will be an international binding treaty to reduce and eventually eliminate mercury compounds altogether from polluting industries, such as gold mining and fossil fuel plants, and many common household products.

Overall the treaty is an admirable triumph. In many developing countries, mercury pollution is destroying the environment and causing rampant human illness. However fervent applause should be withheld.  One powerful alliance that portends to champion itself as the protector human health—the vaccine industrial complex—is resolved to assure that mercurial exposure continue through aggressive vaccination programs. To the delight all those corralled in the amphitheater of vaccine magic and wonder—the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the US CDC and FDA, the World Health Organization (WHO)—the treaty will exempt thimerosal (ethylmercury) containing vaccines (TCVs). So while sources of mercury pollution will lessen dramatically, hundreds of millions of child-bearing women, newborns and small children will be increasingly poisoned by TCVs.

The absurdity of this scenario should be evident. On the one hand, the international community agrees that mercury is highly toxic and levels must be phased out from mining operations, coal powered plants, cement production, thermometers and light bulbs and other every day products. On the other hand, a powerful group of individuals, health organizations and government agencies, lobbying on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry, has won a victory because they believe it would be too costly for drug companies and international health agencies if mercury were banned from vaccines. In their upside down world, the cost benefits of thimerosal weigh heavier in the corporate scales than the health threats from mercurial toxicity.

Thimerosal has been proven scientifically to be a human carcinogen, a mutagen (abnormally affects DNA), a teratogen (induces abnormal prenatal development), a reproductive toxin, and an immune system disruptor. It is associated with abnormal neurological development and brain injury. If this were not so, Eli Lily, the leading manufacturer of thimerosal, would not be required to print on thimerosal‘s Material Safety Data Sheet: “Exposure to mercury in utero and in children may cause mild to severe mental retardation and mild to severe motor coordination impairment.”

The whole text on this problem can be read by accessing:

http://prn.fm/2013/01/30/gary-null-the-uns-mercury-treaty-favors-corporate-wealth-over-childrens-health/#axzz2QqEbhHs7

There it is an interview with Dr Jose Dorea who is a full professor at the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Brasilia in Brazil, one of Latin America’s largest educational institutes for medical training and research. He is an expert on the metabolism of neurotoxic metals, specifically aluminum, lead and mercury, during pregnancy, lactation and throughout childhood. He has also been an international voice in the fight to remove thimerosal from vaccines in developing countries.

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Read more: http://prn.fm/2013/01/30/gary-null-the-uns-mercury-treaty-favors-corporate-wealth-over-childrens-health/#ixzz2YmxUTMYI
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