RFID Chip Implants Linked To Malignant Tumors
Of still greater interest is that the former head of the Department Of Health And Human Services, Tommy Thompson (which overseas the FDA), left this agency shortly after it had approved Verichip's patent for the RFID chip and within months was on the board of Verichip Corp. and Applied Digital Solutions. Was Thompson offered a sweetheart deal with ADS for giving it approval to market Verichip and Digital Angel?
He claims that there is no connection, however outlandish this may sound. And the following quote only serves to make Thompson's claims even more suspect: "While in President Bush's Cabinet, he formed a 'medical innovation' task force that worked to partner FDA with companies developing medical information technologies."
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(AP) Tommy Thompson, former secretary of Health and Human Services, speaks during a forum on Medicaid. 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.
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