{"id":4102,"date":"2010-10-14T02:58:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T19:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2010-10-14T02:58:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T19:58:39","slug":"suit-alleges-tracking-chip-caused-cancer-in-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/rfid\/suit-alleges-tracking-chip-caused-cancer-in-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Suit alleges tracking chip caused cancer in cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A woman in Cambridge is suing two companies that make implantable radio tracking chips for pets, claiming that her cat developed cancer after receiving one of the implants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Andrea Rutherford filed her lawsuit in Cambridge District Court earlier this month, naming\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.boston.com\/boston?Page=QUOTE&amp;Ticker=MRK\" target=\"_new\">Merck<\/a> &amp; Co. of New Jersey, distributor of the HomeAgain pet-tracking product, and Digital Angel Inc., the Minnesota company that made the chip. The suit claimed that the two companies violated an implied warranty that the HomeAgain product was safe, and sought \u201creasonable compensatory damages and interest.\u2019\u2019 Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in Cambridge is suing two companies that make implantable radio tracking chips for pets, claiming that her cat developed cancer after receiving one of the implants. Andrea Rutherford filed her lawsuit in Cambridge District Court earlier this month, naming\u00a0Merck &amp; Co. of New Jersey, distributor of the HomeAgain pet-tracking product, and Digital Angel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rfid","category-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4104,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions\/4104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}