Chemical Ingredients
Other Chemical Ingredients
These include preservatives, disinfectants, antibiotics, stabilizers, etc. some of which may cause allergic reactions or other toxicity. Note also that the vials containing some vaccines are still sealed with latex stoppers which can be allergenic.
- Licensed Vaccines in Canada & Ingredients
- Formaldehyde
- Gentamycin
- Glutaraldehyde
- Hydrolyzed gelatin
- L-histidine – used as a stabilizer when aluminum salts are present
- M199 – an artificial culture medium which contains or is combined with L-glutamate
- Mannitol
- Mercury (Thimerosal)
- Monosodium L glutamate
- Monosodium phosphate
- Neomycin
- 2-phenoxyethanol
- Polyethylene glycol p-isooctylphenyl ether (Triton ® X-100)
- Polymixin B
- Polysorbate 80
- Potassium chloride
- Potassium phosphate monobasic
- Streptomycin
- Sodium borate
- Sodium chloride
- Sodium deoxycholate
- Sodium phosphate; sodium phosphate dibasic; sodium phosphate dibasic & heptahydrate; sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate
- Sorbitol
- Sucrose
- Urea