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.
Prosecutors in France urged a French court this week to hand a four-year prison sentence and a €100,000 fine to Jean-Claude Mas, the man whose firm made faulty breast implants for thousands of woman, sparking a health scare across the globe.
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>The founder of the French breast implant company at the heart of a global health scare was jailed on Tuesday after failing to pay his bail, a source said.</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="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>
