CMdeux,
If avoiding vaccines was an option, why would I care about vaccine safety?
"Agar is NOT "seafood" derived."
What I meant was, any seafood can be contaminated with seaweed/algae proteins.
Agar in vaccines is seaweed/algae derived. So if you develop allergy to seaweed proteins, you can react to seafood.
"Polysorbates are not associated with any particular allergens-- they are particular chemical formulae, and may be derived from any number of sources,"
Polysorbates are not made using a textbook perfect process. In the real world, contamination is a fact of life.
There is no specification limiting the allergen content in vaccines or injectable grade polysorbate. So, manufacturers do not and can not test during production. Do you know what is a safe quantity of allergen that can be injected into humans? If we don't know how much is safe to inject and we don't know how much allergen is contained in polysorbates, Murphy's law applies. Our kids with food allergy are living proof of the outcome.
When they don't have a specification, they are not engineering vaccines, they are tinkering with them. They are tinkering with our children's lives.
"but if they are contaminated with food proteins, they won't do what they need to as additives."
That's like saying vaccines won't work because they are contaminated with ovalbumin.
8-18ng/ml of casein is all it takes to cause anaphylaxis. Even less to cause sensitization.
18ng/ml is not going to stop the additive from doing what it is supposed to do.
"scaremongering"
If you are not scared about vaccines, you probably don't know enough about them.
"Daily consumption is about 10 times the amount in that oh-so-scary Vitamin K injection label that you dug up."
Apparently, you don't realize that ingesting is not the same as injecting? Surprising if this is your area of professional expertise ...
If you don't have ulcers, you can ingest cobra venom, but it would be a bad idea to inject it ...
"In so doing, you ignored the far larger number of data points which support the SAFETY of those same things."
References showing safety of food allergens in vaccines, please.
"Your final line indicates that you feel that Japan stopped immunizing schoolchildren on the basis of some grave risk to those children..."
Your own reference says:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200103223441204"This program was abandoned in 1994 in response to community pressures following publicity of adverse reactions and questions about vaccine effectiveness."
If it was working great, why would they stop it?