Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy may soon be asking the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to examine aluminum ingredients in vaccines, according to Bloomberg News. Kennedy has long falsely asserted that vaccines containing aluminum salts as an adjuvant cause health problems. He has made similar claims regarding vaccines that include thimerasol as an adjuvant. In June, ACIP recommended against the use of thimerasol in influenza vaccines. Unlike thimerasol, which is only used in a small percentage of influenza vaccines, multiple types of vaccines contain aluminum. This implies that a possible decision to curb or ban its use could have far-reaching implications.
Speaking to governors on July 26th, RFK Jr. said “we need to look at the aluminum in the vaccines to see if that has anything to do with this explosion of allergies that began in 1989, which was the year they expanded the vaccine schedule.” He specifically cited the hepatitis B jab, falsely saying that in Israel doses of hepatitis B vaccines are not given after birth (they are).
This isn’t the first time Kennedy has criticized the use of aluminum in vaccines. He said on a podcast in 2024 that aluminum in vaccines is “extremely neurotoxic.”
Aluminum salts are used in vaccines as an adjuvant to help boost a person’s immune response. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this ingredient has been used safely in vaccines for more than 70 years, initially in the 1930s,...
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