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11 Jan 07.
businessweek.com.
Two cousin companies bet the fast-expanding market for animal RFID
chips will extend to humans before long
Under the federally
supported National Animal Identification System (NAIS), digital tags
are expected to be affixed to the U.S.'s 40 million farm animals to
enable regulators to track and respond quickly to disease,
bioterrorism, and other calamities. Opponents have many fears about
this plan, among them that it could be the forerunner of a similar
system for humans.
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