Use plant alternative for squalene in COVID vaccine rather than Shark liver oil

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Shark liver oil, known as squalene, is regularly used as a key component in flu and flu-like vaccines but plant based alternatives from plants such as sugar cane exist.
Any potential vaccine administered to the population containing squalene should be from plant-based alternatives.

To prevent unnecessary slaughter of potentially 500,000 or more sharks. Most shark species are endangered or critically endangered and we should be working towards getting them more protection not being selfish to use a small part of them for our benefit when there is a simple and renewable alternative. Please find a research paper below which states in its conclusion how many plant based alternatives there are to squalene over animal based

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4324104/

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: Ban the use of Shark Squalene in the UK

Timeline

29 Sep 2020	Petition opened for signatures
5 Oct 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 5 Oct 2020

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