11. Currently there is no accepted scientific evidence that exposure to thiomersal is a factor in causing autism. 12. Ethylmercury is one of the metabolites of thiomersal , which is used as a preservative in some vaccines. 13. Thiomersal is the ethylmercury-releasing compound sodium ethylmercuric thiosalicylate, C 9 H 9 HgNaO 2 S.14. Outside of the United States, worries about thiomersal had not gained any significant traction as of 2009. 15. The pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company gave thiomersal the trade name "'Merthiolate " '. 16. US courts have ruled against multiple representative test cases involving thiomersal , suggesting the majority are unlikely to succeed. 17. And then, of course, there's the ever-popular Thiomersal -in-vaccines controversy. 18. Also, four rarely used treatments for pit viper, coral snake, and black widow venom still contain thiomersal . 19. These reviews determined that no significant evidence exists to establish thiomersal as the cause of autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders. 20. There were seven well-constructed studies, which attempted to correlate autism to thiomersal in vaccines and were unsuccessful.
