2007-09-10
The Italian researchers she found to examine tissue from her dog released a paper in 2006 that suggests a connection between the chip and Leon's tumor and revealed that other studies had been conducted previously that also showed tumors occurring in rats and cats that had been microchipped. The tumors formed between 1 month and 3 years after the chips were implanted and seemed to spring up around areas of inflammation created by the microchip.

As the AP article shows, however, VeriChip, the company that pushed for FDA approval of the chips in 2005 for medical and identification purposes, failed to disclose the existence of such studies to the FDA.

VeriChip told the Associated Press that it had not been aware of any previous studies linking RFID chips to cancer in animals, although Katherine Albrecht of Spychips.org had little trouble unearthing three such studies at the Harvard medical library. When the AP asked if the FDA had considered these or other studies before it approved the use of implantable chips, the agency declined repeated requests to specify what studies it had reviewed for its decision.

The AP also uncovered an important connection between VeriChip and former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, whose agency oversaw the FDA while it was considering the VeriChip for..............
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