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Microchips
Implants Cause Cancer In Lab Animals
From Katherine Albrecht
Spychips.com | Sept. 8, 2007
Damning research could spell the
end of VeriChip
The Associated Press will issue a breaking story this weekend
revealing that microchip implants have induced cancer in laboratory
animals and dogs, says privacy expert and long-time VeriChip
opponent Dr. Katherine Albrecht.
As the AP will report, a series of research articles spanning more
than a decade found that mice and rats injected with
glass-encapsulated RFID transponders developed malignant,
fast-growing, lethal cancers in up to
1% to 10% of cases. The tumors originated in the tissue surrounding
the microchips and often grew to completely surround the devices,
the researchers said.
Albrecht first became aware of the microchip-cancer link when she
and her "Spychips" co-author, Liz McIntyre, were contacted by a pet
owner whose dog had died from a chip-induced tumor. Albrecht then
found medical
studies showing a causal link between microchip implants and cancer
in other animals. Before she brought the research to the AP's
attention, none of the studies had received widespread public
notice.
A four-month AP investigation turned up additional documents,
several of which had been published before VeriChip's parent
company, Applied Digital Solutions, sought FDA approval to market
the implant for humans. The
VeriChip received FDA approval in 2004 under the watch of then
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson who later joined
the board of the company.
Under FDA policy, it would have been VeriChip's responsibility to
bring the adverse studies to the FDA's attention, but VeriChip CEO
Scott Silverman claims the company was unaware of the research.
Albrecht expressed skepticism that a company like VeriChip, whose
primary business is microchip implants, would be unaware of relevant
studies in the published literature.
"For Mr. Silverman not to know about this research would be
negligent. If he did know about these studies, he certainly had an
incentive to keep them quiet," said Albrecht. "Had the FDA known
about the cancer link, they might never have approved his company's
product."
Since gaining FDA approval, VeriChip has aggressively targeted
diabetic and dementia patients, and recently announced that it had
chipped 90 Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers in Florida.
Employees in the
Mexican Attorney General's Office, workers in a U.S. security firm,
and club-goers in Europe have also been implanted.
Albrecht expressed concern for those who have received a chip
implant, urging them to get the devices removed as soon as possible.
"These new revelations change everything," she said. "Why would
anyone take the risk of a having cancer chip in their arm?"
To read the story with pictures click below:
http://www.citizensadvocate.net/newsletters/albrechtVeriChipAP.html
To hear Dr. Katherine Albrecht on Ettaro LIVE!
on We The People Radio
Network breaking this story click below:
http://restoretherepublic.com/index.php?option=com_weblinks&task=view&catid=13&id=49
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