A French court on Thursday ordered the German safety certifier that approved defective breast implants for use to compensate around 400 Swedish women who received the devices behind a global health scare.
A French court on Friday ordered German safety certifier TUV to pay 60 million euros ($64 million) in compensation to 20,000 women who received defective breast implants that the group had approved.
A French appeals court on Thursday found German safety standards body TUV had "fulfilled its obligations" in certifying breast implants that were found to be faulty and sparked a worldwide scare.
The question of whether to ban breast implants in France has once again been raised after reports revealed a rise in the rate of a rare cancer that has been linked to the prosthetics.
The founder of the firm that sparked a global health scare by using industrial-grade silicone in breast implants given to women across the world was jailed by a French court on Tuesday. Jean-Claude Masa had been dubbed "the sorcerer's apprentice of implants".
A French court ruled on Thursday that German safety standards firm TUV was liable for a global health scare, after green-lighting French-made breast implants which were in fact defective.
France's medicines safety watchdog on Tuesday revealed that doctors have removed breast implants made by disgraced French manufacturer PIP from more than 16,000 women. Some 25 percent of the products also had signs of splitting or leaking.
France launched one its biggest-ever trials on Wednesday as five managers from company PIP faced charges of selling faulty breast implants that sparked a global health scare.
More than one in three women in France who have had PIP breast implants have undergone surgery to have them removed, French Agency of Health Products (ANSM).
<p>France's wealthy could take it on the nose if the French tax man gets his way and cosmetic surgery becomes subject to the value added tax.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">French police arrested Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of the breast implant company PIP at the centre of an international health scare, police said Thursday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">French breast implant manufacturer PIP used a fuel additive in its now-banned implants which the company knew were defective as early as 2005, it was revealed on Monday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Holed up at his home in the south of France, the founder of troubled breast implant manufacturer PIP is fighting back against a growing international scandal over his allegedly faulty products.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #222222;" lang="EN-US">Breast implants made by troubled French firm</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> PIP have been at the heart of multiple lawsuits in the United States, where they were sold up until 2000, documents filed with the US government show.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #222222;" lang="EN-US">France's health ministry said on Friday there was</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #222222;" lang="EN-US"> <span>no cancer risk from breast implants made by local firm PIP but recommended to</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">the women with implants to have them removed after eight cases of cancer.</span></p>
<p>European authorities sought to head off panic Wednesday over hundreds of thousands of French-made breast implants at the centre of a health scare, saying there was no proof of a link to cancer.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Daily newspaper Libération reported on Tuesday that 30,000 women will be ordered to have their faulty breast implants removed.</span></p>
