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  • "Children's health took a backseat to special interests. The only major purposeful exposure to mercury that didn't get addressed was thimerosal," said Eric Uram, executive director at SafeMinds, which seeks to eradicate autism and other health disorders they say are caused by mercury and man-made toxicants.

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