When Breast Implants Are Ticking Time Bombs: The PIP Scandal
by Aralena Malone-Leroy
-France-
• PIP plant back door. La Seyne sur Mer, Var, France. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user marcovdz and used under a Creative Commons license •
This announcement, which concerns more than 450,000 women worldwide – approximately 30,000 in France and 40,000 in the United Kingdom alone, with thousands more in Spain and Italy, as well as Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, and Venezuela – came nearly 12 years after the first alarm sounded on the substandard quality of the PIP breast implants.
