Was the aluminum used in vaccines well-tested?

A video featuring Toby Rogers claims that the safety studies for aluminum in vaccines were inadequate, with small sample sizes, poor methodology, and results showing potentially harmful accumulation of aluminum in critical organs like the brain and heart.

The video claims that aluminum and mercury in vaccines are unsafe due to poor safety studies. However, these ingredients are used in tiny, carefully tested amounts to make vaccines more effective.

Aluminum, for example, is used as an adjuvant to boost the immune response, reducing the number of doses needed. Studies have repeatedly shown that the levels of aluminum in vaccines are far below harmful thresholds. The body naturally processes and eliminates small amounts of aluminum found in food, water, and medicines, including vaccines.

And studies show that the body clears most of it quickly through the kidneys. A study published in Vaccine found that the amount of aluminum from vaccines is much smaller than what people are exposed to daily from food and the environment. Additionally, the aluminum that remains temporarily in the body does not accumulate to harmful levels. Vaccines save millions of lives each year, and their benefits far outweigh the minimal, scientifically disproven risks suggested in the video.

The video criticizes safety studies for small sample sizes, but this ignores the rigorous testing process vaccines undergo before approval. Clinical trials usually include thousands of people from different backgrounds to make sure medicines and vaccines are safe and work well. Government agencies like the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and EMA (European Medicines Agency) have strict rules that scientists must follow. These rules include testing on a large number of people and watching for side effects over a long period of time.

Claims that aluminum adjuvant studies rely solely on small rabbit studies are misleading, as these studies are part of a larger body of evidence that includes human clinical trials and decades of vaccine safety data.

The suggestion that aluminum or mercury in vaccines causes autism has been thoroughly debunked. Large-scale studies, including research published in reputable journals like JAMA have found no link between vaccines and autism. The initial controversy stemmed from a fraudulent study by Andrew Wakefield, which was later retracted due to false data. Numerous studies since then have shown no causal relationship between vaccine ingredients, including aluminum or mercury, and autism.

Not only do the studies done to date show vaccines are not in any way linked to autism, but studies indicate disorganization of the prefrontal cortex in the brains of autistic people. This finding about brains links autism to development that takes place before birth.

Of all the risk factors for developing autism, we know genetics looks the most likely, and being vaccinated is not among them.