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Vaccine Ingredients
Each component in each vaccine serves a purpose. Certain ingredients help keep vaccines safe from contamination and toxins, while others, like stabilizers, help vaccines stay effective for a long time. Each of the components are added intentionally to perform an important function. If any trace compounds are found in a vaccine, it is at a lower level than found naturally in the body or the environment --because all vaccine ingredients help to make a vaccine as effective as possible, while still remaining safe.88
Take a look for yourself- click on each category type of ingredients to learn more.
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Stabilizers
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Adjuvants
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Residual Inactivating Ingredients
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Residual Cell Culture Material
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Residual Antibiotics
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Preservatives
Ingredients in Specific Vaccines
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is responsible for making sure vaccines are safe and effective, has information about all approved vaccines.
Check out the links below to discover the different vaccine options and the various ingredients.
- FDA-approved vaccines
- Learn about the vaccines that are currently approved in the U.S. by the FDA to prevent different diseases- See approved vaccines.90
- More about vaccine ingredients
- Want to know more? Read about common vaccine ingredients from the FDA- Learn from the FDA.91
- Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) Vaccine specific92