[5] In 1990, an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a contractor of the vaccine manufacturers called the connection a "myth" and "nonsense".

[6] [7] However, before that point, criticism of the studies showing no connection and a few well-publicized anecdotal reports of permanent disability that were blamed on the DPT vaccine gave rise to anti-DPT movements in the 1970s.

[8][9] In the United States, low profit margins and an increase in vaccine-related lawsuits led many manufacturers to stop producing the DPT vaccine by the early 1980s.

[citation needed] The NCVIA also established a committee from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to review the existing literature on vaccine adverse events occurring after immunization.

It has been faulted by those claiming that it has resulted in the end of civil liability for vaccines,[13] in spite of its creation of the NVICP as an alternative avenue for compensation.