Religious Exemption Better Than Medical Exemption

The Biblical View On Chemicals and Toxins
Dr Paul MacDonald RN MA Dipl ©

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Judaism:

"One who saves one life, it is accounted as if a world is saved," - Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:9

"God created food and water; we must use them in staving off hunger and thirst. God created drugs and compounds and gave us the intelligence necessary to discover their medicinal properties; we must use them in warding off illness and disease." - Maimonides's Commentary on Mishnah Pesachim 4:9

"Seeing that the maintenance of the body in a healthy and sound condition is a God-chosen way, for, lo, it is impossible that one should understand or know aught of the divine knowledge concerning the Creator when he is sick, it is necessary for man to distance himself from things which destroy the body and accustom himself in things which are healthful and life-imparting." - Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Human Dispositions 4 – Sefaria

And He said: "If you will diligently harken to the voice of the L-rd, your G-d, and will do that which is right in His sight, and will give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you which I put on the Egyptians; for I am the L-rd, your healer". - Exodus 15:26

I am the L-rd, your healer, and I teach you the Torah and the commandments in order that you may be saved from these diseases - like a physician who says to a man: "Do not eat this thing lest it will bring you into danger from this illness". – Rashi’s commentary on Exodus 15:26

"Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world." - Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:1 (22a)

The principle of pikuach nefesh is that almost anything else should be set aside to save a life.