§300aa–27 Mandate for safer childhood vaccines

Summary

Require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to push for childhood vaccines that cause fewer and less serious adverse reactions than the vaccines on the market on December 22, 1987. The Secretary must also improve and use his or her authority over how vaccines are licensed, made, tested, labeled, warned about, instructed for use, distributed, stored, given, monitored in the field, reported for adverse reactions, recalled if batches cause reactions, and researched so that vaccine risks are reduced. Create a task force made up of the Director of the National Institutes of Health, the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, with the NIH Director serving as chair. The task force, working with the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, must give the Secretary recommendations on carrying out these duties. Within 2 years after December 22, 1987, and every 2 years after that, the Secretary must send a report to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate describing actions taken in the prior 2-year period.