Implant safety gains support

TIGHTER controls are needed to make breast implants safer, according to Oldham Euro-MP Arlene McCarthy.

The Labour MEP is supporting legislation which calls for the establishment of “traceability systems” so women know the manufacturer of their breast implant and an EU system for “pre-market authorisation” after the recent scandal of faulty breast implants affected women across the EU.

Ms McCarthy and other Labour Euro-MPs sponsored the resolution in the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

She said: “We need EU-wide action and a register to set up a traceability system across Europe is a key part of that.”

At the end of last year, regulators discovered that the French manufacturer PiP had for years been illegally selling unapproved silicone breast implants. By the time the fraud had been discovered, it is estimated 300,000 implants had been sold across the world.







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