The Trump administration move to study aluminum in vaccines worries scientists
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The Trump administration is studying the safety of an ingredient commonly used in vaccines, an additive that contains aluminum. Coming after other recent changes to vaccine policy, many public health experts worry that the administration may now try to remove the ingredient.
"We want no aluminum in the vaccine," President Trump said recently at a White House briefing.
For almost a century, some important vaccines, including shots that protect against diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis and the flu, have included aluminum salts, compounds that contain small amounts of aluminum.
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