The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just announced a brand-new workgroup to evaluate the safety of aluminum in childhood vaccines – even though aluminum has been in those shots for decades.

Apparently, someone at headquarters (most likely Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) is not exactly jazzed that the FDA’s aluminum limit for vaccines is still based on adult body weight instead of adjusting it for infants. Bravo, science.

According to The Maha Report, this freshly minted “Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule Workgroup” under the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will review whether aluminum exposure might increase the asthma risk in children and lead to other pediatric conditions. One recent study hinted it could, while another said it couldn’t. In other words: nobody knows, and the CDC has decided to form a committee about it.

You’d think that an agency with a $12 billion+ budget and thousands of epidemiologists might have asked this question, oh, say, back when aluminum adjuvants were first injected into babies. But no – they’re getting around to it now, decades later.

Maybe this new group will actually uncover something useful. Or maybe, like most bureaucratic workgroups, it’ll generate a 300-page PowerPoint that ends with “more research is needed.” Either way, it’s nice to know that after all these years, the CDC has finally decided to check the label on its own product.