Comment from Elizabeth Hart

Unnecessary, and possibly harmful, vaccination of pets is a massive international scandal. Around the world millions of pets are being subjected to unnecessary, and possibly harmful, vaccinations due to the failure of government regulators to ensure that revaccination ‘recommendations’ on core vaccine product labels are evidence based. Millions of pets are also being subjected to indiscriminate repeated vaccination with non-core vaccines of questionable efficacy and duration of immunity, and dubious safety. This serious matter must be addressed by government regulators to ensure that exploitation of pet owners by over-servicing of their pets with unnecessary vaccine products is stopped. Repeated vaccination of already immune animals with core vaccines is not effective. Similarly, indiscriminate vaccination of animals with non-core vaccines that are of no proven benefit to the individual animal is not effective. Dr Richard Hill, Director of the Center for Veterinary Biologics, is in receipt of much of the material and correspondence I have produced on the topic of over-vaccination of pets since the death of my own dog after unnecessary vaccination. Please see attached to this comment my recent correspondence on this matter, i.e. my letter of formal complaint to the Australian Veterinary Association, Australasian Veterinary Boards Council and the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority; my correspondence with the UK Veterinary Medicines Directorate; and my submission on the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ draft Code of Professional Conduct. I request that the attached documents also be considered in the USDA APHIS Center for Veterinary Biologics' discussions regarding vaccine effectiveness and veterinary biologics labelling, as they provide an ‘informed pet owner’s/consumer’s perspective’ on the serious international problem of over-vaccination of pets, a perspective which has been ignored by the veterinary industry for far too long.