Tuesday, January 31, 2012 8:19 AM
France Health Authorities Call for Tougher EU Controls
Following the health scare involving substandard breast implants, French authorities are asking for ‘radically redrafting’ EU law relating to medical devices.
The health department and its regulator submitted a report to French health minister Xavier Bertrand with recommendations based on a near two-year investigation into Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), the now-closed breast implant maker. The two agencies cited a host of lapses in France and the European Union that allowed PIP -- without being caught -- to fill its implants with a homemade silicone gel instead of the medical silicone it said it was using. In March 2010, the regulator AFSS more...
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