The anti-vaxxing community has long claimed that Aluminium used in vaccines for children leads to detrimental effects for them as they grow up. The post from X.com makes the same claim: “Injecting aluminum into our children should be considered a crime.”

The post responds to an attached video  statement by Dr Scott Gottlieb, former United States Commissioner of Food and Drugs, stating: “if RFK Jr forces vaccine manufacturers to remove their aluminum adjuvants, “you’d see a lot of vaccines potentially come off the market because there is no good alternative”.

 The anti-vaxxing group was founded by the US SEcretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 

Now, a study on this exact topic has been published in a journal, Annals of Internal Medicine. The results have proved that Aluminium is safe for use in vaccines and cannot lead to any harmful effect, thus debunking the claims of the anti-vaxxing community.

The Danish study conducted over a period of 24 years, analyzed health records and vaccination data from more than 1.2 million children born in Denmark for any association between exposure to aluminium in childhood vaccines and an increased risk of autism, asthma, allergies, or any of 50 chronic conditions often diagnosed in children. The researchers followed them through their early years to determine whether the aluminum salts commonly added as adjuvants to vaccines play any role in the development of autoimmune, allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders, and found with certainty that, “Cumulative aluminum exposure from vaccination during the first 2 years of life was not associated with increased rates of any of the 50 disorders assessed.”

The study leveraged Denmark’s extensive national health registries, tracking children born from 1997 to 2018. Investigators examined whether the number of aluminum-containing vaccines received influenced the rate of chronic diseases by age five. They did not observe a “dose response”—no matter how many doses containing aluminum children received, the rate of chronic disease did not stray from expected levels. 

Aluminum salts are used in several inactivated, or non-live, vaccines—including those for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis—to enhance immune responses. The study found that even as children received more aluminum-containing vaccines over the years, the rates of chronic disease did not budge.

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