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Insight: FDA warned PIP on breast implant safety

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Insight: FDA warned PIP on breast implant safety
cure is worse than the disease

Plastic surgeon Denis Boucq displays a silicone gel breast implant manufactured by French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) in a clinic in Nice December 26, 2011.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As early as 2000, U.S. health authorities raised concerns about the French breast implant maker at the heart of a scandal affecting hundreds of thousands of women worldwide. That was almost ten years before the company came under scrutiny from European regulators.


Credit: Reuters/Eric Gaillard

Anna Yukhananov

WASHINGTON
Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:12am EST

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/27/us-breastimplants-fda-idUSTRE7BQ03M20111227




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