42 U.S.C. § 300aa–27 — Mandate for safer childhood vaccines

(a) General rule: While running this part of the law and other related laws, the Secretary must: (1) push for the development and improvement of childhood vaccines that cause fewer and less serious bad reactions than the vaccines sold as of December 22, 1987; and (2) improve — using every authority the Secretary already has — how vaccines are licensed, manufactured, processed, tested, labeled, warned about, used, distributed, stored, given, monitored in the field, reported on for adverse reactions, and recalled when a batch is dangerous, plus vaccine research generally, all to reduce the risk of bad reactions. (b) Task force: (1) The Secretary must set up a task force on safer childhood vaccines, made up of the Director of the National Institutes of Health, the Commissioner of the FDA, and the Director of the CDC. (2) The NIH Director chairs the task force. (3) Working with the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, the task force writes recommendations to the Secretary on how to carry out subsection (a). (c) Report: Within 2 years of December 22, 1987, and periodically after that, the Secretary must send Congress's Energy and Commerce Committee (House) and Labor and Human Resources Committee (Senate) a report on what's been done under subsection (a) over the previous two years.