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Old September 9th 07, 12:41 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.health
buglady
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Default Chip implants linked to animal tumors

...........in mice and rats. Apparently there's also a couple of instances
of tumors in dogs. Personally I'm surprised they haven't found more growths
associated with chips. Not necessarily cancerous tumors, but a benign
attempt by the body to sequester this foreign object. NOW they want to do a
20 yr study on canines/chips/tumors......hmmmmmmmm. I don't like the mealy
mouthed stuff about chips helping thousands of animals return home either.
That may be a fact, but one is entitled to weigh benefit vs. risk when
making a decision to chip or not. Informed decision is important.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070908/...ca_ii;_ylt=AhT
mC4G10piZR9uqOBLWIBFH2ocA

*Tens of thousands of dogs have been chipped, she said, and veterinary
pathologists haven't reported outbreaks of related sarcomas in the area of
the neck, where canine implants are often done. (Published reports detailing
malignant tumors in two chipped dogs turned up in AP's four-month
examination of research on chips and health. In one dog, the researchers
said cancer appeared linked to the presence of the embedded chip; in the
other, the cancer's cause was uncertain.)

Nonetheless, London saw a need for a 20-year study of chipped canines "to
see if you have a biological effect." Dr. Chand Khanna, a veterinary
oncologist at the National Cancer Institute, also backed such a study,
saying current evidence "does suggest some reason to be concerned about
tumor formations."*

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Old September 10th 07, 04:35 AM posted to rec.pets.dogs.health
FurPaw
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Default Chip implants linked to animal tumors

buglady wrote:
..........in mice and rats. Apparently there's also a couple of instances
of tumors in dogs. Personally I'm surprised they haven't found more growths
associated with chips. Not necessarily cancerous tumors, but a benign
attempt by the body to sequester this foreign object. NOW they want to do a
20 yr study on canines/chips/tumors......hmmmmmmmm. I don't like the mealy
mouthed stuff about chips helping thousands of animals return home either.
That may be a fact, but one is entitled to weigh benefit vs. risk when
making a decision to chip or not. Informed decision is important.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070908/...ca_ii;_ylt=AhT
mC4G10piZR9uqOBLWIBFH2ocA


I found this interesting:

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The FDA also stands by its approval of the technology.

Did the agency know of the tumor findings before approving the
chip implants? The FDA declined repeated AP requests to specify
what studies it reviewed.

The FDA is overseen by the Department of Health and Human
Services, which, at the time of VeriChip's approval, was headed
by Tommy Thompson. Two weeks after the device's approval took
effect on Jan. 10, 2005, Thompson left his Cabinet post, and
within five months was a board member of VeriChip Corp. and
Applied Digital Solutions. He was compensated in cash and stock
options.

Thompson, until recently a candidate for the 2008 Republican
presidential nomination, says he had no personal relationship
with the company as the VeriChip was being evaluated, nor did he
play any role in FDA's approval process of the RFID tag.

"I didn't even know VeriChip before I stepped down from the
Department of Health and Human Services," he said in a telephone
interview./quote

Uh huh. Follow the money.

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