It appears that the PIP breast implants scandal is symptomatic of a wider regulatory failure affecting all medical devices, according to Professor Brian Toft. The reliable medical journal The Lancet supports his views, with an editorial which unfortunately requires a payment for the full text. ( "19 members of the UK's Committee on the Safety of Devices (CSD), together with representatives from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and industry, gather in London to hear a disturbing presentation by Brian Toft, Professor of Patient Safety at Coventry University. Prof Toft had contacted MHRA to express concern about the CE marking process—the method by which medical devices are approved.").http://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...070-1/fulltext
Meantime for women with these implants, Department of Health Advice is as follows:-
http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/01/...-pip-implants/
