Home / Ask The Experts / Some of my patients are reading The Vaccine Book, in which the author, Dr. Bob Sears, cites studies that he interprets as showing that the amount of aluminum found in certain vaccines might be unsafe. He thinks it is better to separate aluminum-containing vaccines, rather than give them according to the recommended U.S. immunization schedule. I would love any information you have about this.

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Some of my patients are reading The Vaccine Book, in which the author, Dr. Bob Sears, cites studies that he interprets as showing that the amount of aluminum found in certain vaccines might be unsafe. He thinks it is better to separate aluminum-containing vaccines, rather than give them according to the recommended U.S. immunization schedule. I would love any information you have about this.

Paul Offit, MD, and Charlotte Moser, BS, of the Vaccine Education Center (VEC) at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, published an article, “The Problem with Dr. Bob’s Alternative Vaccine Schedule,” in the January 2009 issue of Pediatrics. It includes a section about aluminum. You can read it in its entirety at pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/123/1/e164.

Here is the link to the VEC information page about aluminum in vaccines, including materials for families in English and Spanish: www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety/vaccine-ingredients/aluminum.

Last reviewed: August 28, 2024

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