Microchips Are Not Food! Say No To Invasive Drug Tracking “Smart Pills”

Health, Petitions — By Lindsey Powers on January 22, 2012 5:32 am

Target: The United Kingdom Department of Health

Goal: To urge the UK Department of Health to prohibit the distribution of invasive and potentially harmful edible microchips as a way to supervise ingestion of prescribed medicines.

By year’s end, the United Kingdom will be able to monitor patient compliance with prescribed drug regiments through the distribution of an edible microchip tracking device. When ingested, this new “smart pill” will sense the make-up of its environment and transmit this information to doctors and caretakers. The goal is to assist patients and their families with the demands of complex pharmaceutical schedules, but users of this technology potentially face negative side effects due to the properties of the new pill.

Reportedly, the microchips are made from ingredients commonly found in food. However, the pills are coated with potentially hazardous toxins like copper and silicon, which act as the transmitting device. Once the microchips are ingested along with prescribed medicines, the copper and silicon are activated by stomach acids and turn into a microscopic battery that emits electrical currents, marked with specific signatures that match the drugs taken, to a patch worn on the patients arm. The patch then records the information transmitted by the chip and sends it, via Bluetooth technology, to the mobile phones of patients’ relatives and physicians.

Lloyds-pharmacy, a major UK pharmacy and health care provider, will be the first establishment to provide the new “smart pills” in an attempt to assist patients with the difficulties of remembering complex drug schedules. As Steve Gray, the healthcare service director of Lloyds-pharmacy, explains, “Anyone taking several medications knows how easy it can be to lose track of whether or not you’ve taken the correct tablets that day.” This may be the case, but ingesting copper and silicon several times a day will undoubtedly lead to negative health complications. Both copper and silicon are considered by The Global Healing Center as poisonous if consumed orally in unnaturally higher quantities, with side effects ranging from nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, liver and kidney damage, to even death.

By signing the petition below you will help convince the UK Department of Health to prevent the support and distribution of this harmful and invasive edible microchip technology.

PETITION LETTER

Dear United Kingdom Department of Health,

The proposed distribution of new edible “smart pills” to monitor sick patients’ drug regiments is potentially hazardous to consumer health and should not be supported by your department. The new microchips use known toxins, like copper and silicon, as means to create a microscopic battery in order to transmit information to patients’ caretakers and doctors. These chemicals are not natural food ingredients and should not be digested on a daily bases.

According to The Global Healing Center, ingestion of known poisons like copper and silicon can lead to severe health complications and in rare cases even death. Allowing the ingestion of these chemicals as a means to record drug intake is not only wrong, it directly undermines the purpose of your department.

I am urging you to uphold your values in improving England’s health and well-being. The new edible microchip technology is potentially detrimental to patients’ health. Please take action and prohibit the distribution of these new and toxic “smart pills.”

Sincerely,

[Your Name Here]