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My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (Ed Miliband) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Lord Hunt, Minister for Sustainable Development and Energy Innovation, and I will represent the UK at the Environment Council in Brussels on 4 December. Stewart Stevenson, Scottish Minister...

Member

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour)

Department

Department of Energy and Climate Change

Type

Written statements

Date

4 December 2008

Reference

706 c9WS

House

House of Lords

Environment Council

Lord Hunt, Minister for Sustainable Development and Energy Innovation and I, will represent the UK at the Environment Council in Brussels on 4 December. Stewart Stevenson, Scottish Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change will also attend. At Environment Council the French presidency will report on progress on the EU...

Member

Ed Miliband (Labour)

Department

Department of Energy and Climate Change

Type

Written statements

Date

4 December 2008

Reference

485 c7-8WS

House

House of Commons

Mercury: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will commission research on the link between (a) the mercury content of amalgams and (b) the thiomersal content of some inoculations and progressive neurodegenerative diseases.

Asked by

Malcolm Moss (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

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Answered

Tabled on

31 January 2008

For answer on

5 February 2008

Answered on

5 February 2008

Mercury amalgam has been in use for over 150 years to restore teeth in millions of patients and, apart from rare instances of hypersensitivity, no adverse reactions have been identified.Recent reports from the European Union's Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks and the Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks are available at:"http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/scenihr_cons_07_en.htm"and"http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04__scher/scher_cons_02_en.htm"support the United Kingdom Government's view that there is currently no need for regulation on mercury amalgam. The Government monitor compliance with provisions in the Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005 for the safe disposal of amalgam waste and research conducted on alternative restorative materials.The vaccines used in the UK routine childhood immunisation programme do not contain thiomersal.The Department has funded studies into the thiomersal content in vaccines and has found no link between vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders. One such study was ““Thiomersal exposure in infants and developmental disorders: A prospective Cohort Study in the United Kingdom does not support a causal association””, Jon Heron, Jean Golding and the ALSPAC Study Team ““Paediatrics 2004; 114; 577-583””.As with all medicinal products, vaccine safety is continually monitored by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) with advice from the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM). The CHM and its Expert Advisory Groups have thoroughly reviewed the safety of thiomersal-containing vaccines. The advice of CHM/MHRA remains that there is no evidence of harm from the very small quantities of thiomersal contained in some vaccines, with the exception of possible allergic reactions (typically skin rashes or local swelling at the site of injection). This view concurs with that of the World Health Organization, the United States Institute of Medicine and the European Medicines Agency.

Date

5 February 2008

Reference

184627; 471 c1081-2W;471 c1083-4W

House

House of Commons

Mercury: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what adverse health reactions arising from exposure to mercury have been reported among those working in the manufacture of mercury barometers in the UK in the last 10 years.

Asked by

Bernard Jenkin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 January 2008

Reference

175989; 470 c862-3W

House

House of Commons

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