RFK Jr to remove preservative thimerosal from all US vaccines

Anti-vaccine campaigns have targeted thimerosal for decades despite no evidence of ingredient causing harm

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, will formally require vaccine makers to remove thimerosal from vaccines.

The ingredient has been the target of anti-vaccine campaigns and misinformation for decades. Arguments against the preservative culminated in June, when a key federal vaccine advisory panel, remade with Kennedy's ideological allies, recommended against the preservative.