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**Jeff**

john wrote:
Is there antifreeze in vaccines or not?

http://freedom2question.blogspot.com...es-or-not.html

In "Toxic Myths About Vaccines," author David Gorski MD accuses
anti-vaccinationists of outright lying about toxins in vaccines. He
especially ridicules them for being "chemistry-challenged" on assertions
regarding one particular toxin: antifreeze.

Here's one example. The aforementioned Jenny McCarthy has been repeating
that there is "antifreeze" in vaccines, as she did in the interview linked
to earlier. That line is straight off of a number of antivaccination
websites. (Amazingly Mr. Heckenlively managed to restrain himself from
repeating "the "antifreeze in vaccines" gambit. I can only hope that it is
due to intellectual honesty, although I can't rule out the possibility that
he just didn't know about it.) One website in particular links to an MSDS
about Quaker State Antifreeze/Coolant, the principal ingredients of which
are ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol. Guess what? There's no ethylene
or diethylene glycol in vaccines.
Not so fast, Dr. Gorski. There IS ethylene glycol in vaccines. It's called
2-Phenoxyethanol, and is found in childhood vaccines Infanrix, Deptacel,
Pediarix, and Ipol, amongst others. You see, the other name for
2-Phenosyethanol is ETHYLENE GLYCOL monophenyl ether.

2-phenosyethanol is not ethylene glycol. They are different chemicals.

Jeff