The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that Applied Digital Solutions of Delray Beach, Fla., could market the VeriChip, an implantable computer chip about the size of a grain of rice, for medical purposes.
With the pinch of a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no stitches. Silently and invisibly, the dormant chip stores a code that releases patient-specific information when a scanner passes over it.
Think UPC code. The identifier, emblazoned on a food item, brings up its name and price on the cashier’s screen.
The VeriChip itself contains no medical records, just codes that can be scanned, and revealed, in a doctor’s office or hospital. With that code, the health providers can unlock that portion of a secure database that holds that person’s medical information, including allergies and prior treatment. The electronic database, not the chip, would be updated with each medical visit.
Applied Digital gave away scanners to a few hundred animal shelters and veterinary clinics when it first entered the pet market 15 years ago. Now, 50,000 such scanners have been sold.
To kickstart the chip’s use among humans, Applied Digital will provide $650 scanners for free at 200 of the nation’s trauma centers.
Implantation costs $150 to $200
In pets, installing the chip runs about $50. For humans, the chip implantation cost would be $150 to $200, said Angela Fulcher, an Applied Digital spokeswoman.
Fulcher could not say whether the cost of data storage and encrypted transmission of medical information would be passed to providers.
Because the VeriChip is invisible, it’s also unclear how health care workers would know which unconscious patients to scan. Company officials say if the chip use becomes routine, scanning triceps for hidden chips would become second nature at hospitals.
The company’s chief executive officer, Scott R. Silverman, is one of a half dozen executives who had chips implanted. Silverman said chips implanted for medical uses could also be used for security purposes, like tracking employee movement through nuclear power plants.
Such security uses are rare in the United States.
**SO WILL IT BECOME MANDATORY?**
The new Health Care Bill, H.R. 3200, just passed by Congress has within it the requirement that all people thereunder shall be microchiped. The plans for this microchipping has been in the hooper going back to December of 2004.
Witness the actual FDA (Food and Drug Administration) document dated December 10, 2004 entitled “Class II Special Guidance Document: Implantable Radio frequency Transponder System for Patient Identification and Health Information. This ten page document may be read on the FDA website.
Now witness the wording within H.R. 3200, “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009” found on Congresses’ House Ways and Means website: WAYSANDMEANS.HOUSE.GOV
On page 1001 is “Subtitle C – National Medical Device Registry” which states:
“The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that … is or has been used in or on a patient…”
In other words, everyone microchipped pursuant to the new Health Care Bill must be registered with the Secretary. The “Secretary” is defined as the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The date by which this registry is to begin is mandated on page 1006, which is 36 months after the Health Bill becomes law.
**EFFECTIVE DATE**
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish and begin implementation of the registry under section 519(g) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as added by paragraph (1) by not later than the date that is 36 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, without regard to whether of not final regulations to establish and operate the registry have been promulgated by such date.
Therefore, under the law of H.R. 3200 recently passed by Congress, microchipping of Americans must begin by the year 2013.
Now you know what is behind the new Health Bill, H.R. 3200.
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**BARING ALL** Children to Face Airport Body Scans
Children WILL face 'naked' airport scans ** Government Rules **
By the UK Daily Mail Reporter at 12:28 PM on 30th March 2010
All selected children will have to go through the new full-body 'naked' scanning machines being introduced at airports, the UK Government said today. Transport Secretary Lord Adonis clarified the ruling as he announced a consultation process on the use of scanners. Civil rights groups have raised legal and privacy concerns about the scanners, which have been introduced at Manchester and Heathrow airports following the failed transatlantic plane bomb attack last Christmas. Gatwick and Birmingham will have the devices by the end of the year.
The Government said in its new code of practise: 'We will be requiring all children who are selected to be screened using the scanners. To do otherwise would risk undermining the effect of these new measures. Airport security staff have all been cleared to Government security-vetting level, which includes a check of criminal and security service records. Staff have received comprehensive initial training and regular refresher training in aviation security and customer service.' The code went on: Staff have been trained in how to conduct their duties in a sensitive and proportionate manner."
Just last week a scanner operator at Heathrow received a police warning for making a lewd comment to a colleague as she accidentally passed through the scanner. Campaigners say the scanners, which act like a mini radar device 'seeing' beneath ordinary clothing, are an invasion of privacy.
The Government said it noted concerns expressed under the Protection of Children Act but added that the Act also contained a section dealing with processes necessary for the purposes of prevention, detection or investigation of crime.
The Government said it believed its privacy controls were 'sufficient to give assurance to all passengers', but it was aware of the possibility that 'some individuals, such as transgendered, disabled or elderly passengers, or passengers with particular religious or other beliefs might, notwithstanding the existing privacy controls, have concerns about undergoing a security scan.'
The code went on: 'We believe that in such a situation the security officers have the necessary skills to be able to deal with the situation sensitively.'
Last week a House of Commons Transport Committee report supporting the use of scanners was published.
Some passengers, including two women traveling to Pakistan from Manchester, have refused to go through the scanners and have been barred from boarding their plane.
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