Relief for British women in breast implant fraud

An estimated 400,000 women have breast implants fitted worldwide. Among them, about 20,000 are British. These 20,000 women are taking legal action against France, where they are due to receive compensation for faulty PIP breast implants. A French appeal court has approved them for use and agrees that the company had committed negligence. Unsafe implants were manufactured between 2001 and 2010 by the French company Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP).  The Times reported, “Jean-Claude Mas, the business’s founder, was given a prison sentence in 2013 after it emerged that the company had filed its implants with cheap industrial-grade silicone that had not been cleared for surgical use.  They were far more likely to rupture than other implants, and women reported that leaks left them in pain or with inflammation and lumps under their skin.”