FDA chief Gottlieb backs vaccines—again—to draw firm line against antivaccine activists

Fierce Pharma ------- Top FDA officials had met with Kennedy, just not Gottlieb himself. Lyndsay Meyer, an FDA spokeswoman, confirmed to FiercePharma that Kennedy, through his World Mercury Project, had met with Peter Marks, head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and other FDA staff on March 30. The FDA’s CBER had received a request from the World Mercury Project to discuss vaccine safety, specifically the use of thimerosal—a mercury-based preservative used for decades in the U.S. in multidose vials—according to a statement by the agency. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.