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Controversy is arising because the toxic substance arsenic was detected in a tuberculosis vaccine that the baby must fit within 4 weeks of birth. It is not the amount of safety problems, but the parents are inevitably uneasy.

It is report of Bae Jun-woo reporter.

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Arsenic-detected tuberculosis vaccination BCG is a transdermal product that presses a stamp, not a blood donated by a needle.

It is one of the imported products from Japan used in Korea, and about 140,000 have been distributed in the market.

Health officials and experts explain that the level of arsenic detected is one-eighth of the daily allowable level, which is not a health hazard.

[Yoon Jin-Ha / Yonsei University Medical School Professor of Preventive Medicine: If you have inflammation, fever and pain within a week, you should do some research on the site.]

However, as the drug maker stops shipment of the vaccine and recalls it, parents who have inoculated the child with the vaccine are anxious.

[Han Jae-hee / Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do: It's not like I'm paying expensive money to get a good thing out of my child who does not know anything, but it's like giving a poison pill.]

In Japan, the health authorities proclaimed publicly after three months' notice of the manufacturer's report.

However, Korea has also detected that the import company, Korea Vaccine, had a problem with this product at the end of August.

[Korea Vaccine (Importer) Person in charge: We know that the amount of our daily intake is much higher than that of our product.]

The vaccination assistant site was so crowded that the mothers who had infants who were paralyzed once had a great fear, and the hospital said that it would be possible to carry out the swift and accurate inspection of the vaccine for infants and babies in the future.

(Video coverage: Kim Seongil, video editing: Ho Jin Kim, VJ: Shin So Young)