As body counts mounted and missing-person reports multiplied in the days after Hurricane Katrina, some morgue workers began using a new technology to keep track of unidentified remains.
Radio frequency identification chips -- slender red cylinders about half an inch long -- were implanted under the corpses' skin or placed inside body bags.
Each VeriChip, donated by a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions Inc., emits a specific radio signal, enabling morgue workers to quickly locate and catalog the remains and reduce errors.
With dozens of bodies in two Mississippi counties -- Harrison and Hancock -- still unidentified, Harrison County Coroner Gary T. Hargrove said the chips have been a boon to the Disaster Mortuary Operational Recovery Team he oversees.of a chip. The same number is preprinted on bar-code stickers attached to each injector package. [Read more - BusinessWeek]
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