Practical issues surround microchips and the Microchipping of Dogs (England) Regulations

摘要

The article outlines the basic structure of RFID microchips used for identification of animals. It reviews the recent legislation and its impact on implanters and others, looking at some issues surrounding training of implanters, microchip placement,the Microchip Adverse Event Reporting Scheme and the interaction with MRI. The practice of microchipping of animals for identification purposes has been developed considerably since the mid-1980s when Destron/idENTICHIP brought their original FDX-A 10 digitmicrochips into the UK.