Does the VeriChip cause Cancer?
Here are articles covering the allegation that
VeriChip may cause cancer.
RFID Journal (September 12, 2007): VeriChip Defends the Safety of Implanted RFID Tags
There is no evidence, the company maintains, to support the notion that implanting RFID chips in animals or humans causes tumors.
Applied Digital (September 11, 2007): VeriChip Corporation Sets the Record Straight in Response to Unbalanced Press Reports
VeriChip Corporation ... a provider of RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, responded today in an effort to set the record straight in response to unbalanced press reports relating malignant tumors to the Company's implantable microchips. VeriChip strongly believes and is offering a number of studies that refute any potential link between the Company's implantable microchip and malignant tumors in humans and animals. With this information and its FDA clearance, VeriChip continues to stand behind the safety of its implantable microchip.
VeriChip (September 11, 2007): VeriChip Corporation Comments on Associated Press Article
- VeriChip is safe and has been cleared by the FDA as a Class II Medical Device.
- Millions of dogs and cats have safely received a similar microchip over the past 15 years.
- Laboratory mice and rats have a high probability of tumors at any injection site, regardless of the type of injection.
- The companies take these reports seriously and recognize our responsibility to ensure product safety and to protect our corporate reputation.
New York Times technology blog (September 10, 2007): A Debate We Don’t Need: Do RFID Chips in Humans Cause Cancer?
It was flimsy science but brilliant advocacy work by CASPIAN, the anti-RFID group that convinced an AP reporter to pursue the story. ... The transition of Verichip from just another RFID "spychip" in CASPIAN’s eyes to "cancer chip", began a year ago, according to Liz McIntyre, the group’s research director. ... The article noted that many researchers viewed the studies linking RFID chips in lab rodents to cancer as a huge leap.
via RFID Update
RFID Update (September 10, 2007): Animal RFID Chip Implants Linked to Cancer
This weekend the Associated Press broke a story suggesting a link between VeriChip's implantable chip technology in animals and the formation of cancerous tumors. The story has been picked up widely, from the mainstream media to tech blogs to pet publications. Following is what the RFID industry needs to know.
Associated Press (September 9, 2007): Chip Implants Linked to Animal Tumors
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved implanting microchips in humans, the manufacturer said it would save lives, letting doctors scan the tiny transponders to access patients' medical records almost instantly. The FDA found "reasonable assurance" the device was safe, and a sub-agency even called it one of 2005's top "innovative technologies."
But neither the company nor the regulators publicly mentioned this: A series of veterinary and toxicology studies, dating to the mid-1990s, stated that chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats.
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