On the recordJuly 11, 2000
We have found through the hearings that many of the people on these advisory committees have financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. They have financial ties directly to the companies that are producing the drugs that they are voting on, the vaccinations they are voting on. We have just expressed clearly that children who took the rotavirus vaccine after there had been reservations about it, one died, and several hundred got sick and had to go to the emergency room. There were conflicts of interest. That needs to be eliminated. There are a lot of doctors and scientists we could get who did not have those conflicts of interest, those ties to the pharmaceutical industry, that could give an impartial judgment. That is what we need to do to protect the health of these children.
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