Special Report: The French Breast Implant Scandal -- Reuters
Alexandria Sage, Natalie Huet and Jean-Francois Rosnoblet team up in a review the PIP breast implant case and report the latest on this medical device scandal from France. "In March 2010, a pair of health inspectors [visited]...the headquarters of Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), a leading international maker of breast implants founded by French entrepreneur Jean-Claude Mas. The inspectors found something odd: six discarded plastic containers of Silopren, a liquid silicone designed for industrial, not medical use, lined up along the outside wall of the production site…The history of breast implants is littered with flawed devices...and billion-dollar lawsuits. Reuters reviewed hundreds of pages of police investigation transcripts and financial documents, and interviewed former PIP employees, the company's suppliers, customers and health experts, to piece together this latest chapter in that history. It is a tale of a haphazardly run and cash-strapped company that allegedly took desperate and sometimes deceptive steps to shave costs and hide the true ingredients of its devices. PIP's efforts were made easier by a European regulatory regime that had been essentially outsourced to the very companies that are meant to be regulated...And it relied on crude, unscientific tests of product quality...Some 75 percent of its implants used the non-approved, cheaper gel, Mas told police."...
Source: Harvard World Health News - Friday, 3 February
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