• PIP World Health Crisis

    A woman with ruptured PIP implants died in 2011 from a silicone-related lymphoma. No one knows with any certainty, how having PIP implants will affect women in the future.

  • PIP World Health Crisis

    Poly Implant Prothèse PIP and it's founder Jean-Claude Mas are responsible for a World Health Crisis affecting 500,000 women in 65 countries worldwide.

  • PIP World Health Crisis

    Women are having to undergo surgery to remove dangerous PIP implants, many are still waiting, terrified and traumatised.

  • PIP World Health Crisis

    The toxic silicones in PIP implants begin migrating into body tissue and the lymph system from the moment they are implanted.

  • PIP World Health Crisis

    The fraudulent PIP gels cause an inflammatory reaction and a milky fluid is produced

  • PIP World Health Crisis

    Toxic and neurotoxic chemicals are released into the body, migrating into body organs, across the placenta and into breast milk.

  • PIP World Health Crisis

    In addition to massively saturated lymph nodes, women are affected by debilitating pain and illness. Most have difficulty accessing healthcare or treatment.

  • PIP World Health Crisis

    International Regulatory failures have resulted in thousands of previously healthy women, and women who have undergone breast reconstructive surgery after mastectomies, sick and traumatised.

  • PIP World Health Crisis

    This is not a debate about cosmetic surgery, this is an Urgent World Health Crisis affecting 500,000 women and their children.

  • PIP World Health Crisis

    A woman with ruptured PIP implants died in 2011 from a silicone-related lymphoma. No one knows with any certainty, how having PIP implants will affect women in the future.

  • PIP World Health Crisis

    Poly Implant Prothèse PIP and it's founder Jean-Claude Mas are responsible for a World Health Crisis affecting 500,000 women in 65 countries worldwide.

Saturday, 29 November 2014

Case PIP: Jean-Claude Mas will be retried in 2015 | La Seyne-sur-Mer | Var-Matin

Case PIP: Jean-Claude Mas will be retried in 2015 | La Seyne-sur-Mer | Var-Matin The new is being sent to interested parties. It was in November 2015 that will be held the appeal trial of the health scandal PIP. Two and half years after the marathon trial Parc Chanot in Marseille, five leaders and PIP executives will again face justice. Two weeks of hearings are scheduled from 16 to 27 November to the convention center of Aix-en-Provence. The manufacturer of breast implants founder Jean-Claude Mas, 75, was convicted of aggravated deception and...

Monday, 24 November 2014

Marseille: the prosecution denies test the PIP gel on mice - 20minutes.fr

Marseille: the prosecution denies test the PIP gel on mice - 20minutes.fr JUSTICE - According to the prosecutor of Marseilles, there is no test of the PIP gel on mice but a mere technical expertise on the strength of these prostheses Prosecutors in Marseille on Monday denied an investigating judge is about to be tested on mice the silicone gel e causing the PIP breast implants scandal , as indicated by a lawyer for the civil parties. " This information is completely wrong . There is no such test scheduled on mice, but a simple technical expertise...

Monday, 16 December 2013

Defective Breast Implant Sales Draw Prison Term for French Executive - NYTimes.com

Defective Breast Implant Sales Draw Prison Term for French Executive - NYTimes.com PARIS — A court in Marseille, France, sentenced the founder of a French company on Tuesday to four years in prison for selling hundreds of thousands of defective breast implants in more than 65 countri...

'Sorcerer's apprentice of implants' jailed - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

'Sorcerer's apprentice of implants' jailed - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporati...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Judgment at trial PIP. Prostheses contained a huge dose of cynicism sticky | I do think that it

Judgment at trial PIP. Prostheses contained a huge dose of cynicism sticky | I do think that it NEWS NEWS NEWS. Whatever the judgment was given at trial of those responsible for the marketing of PIP breast implants, this case will leave a terrible memory. During the hearings, there has been an express, with a chilling cynicism, the deepest contempt for women and women's bodies. In addition, for 4113 the plaintiffs, the Battle of the compensation is just beginning. Indeed, Jean-Claude Mas, former head of Poly Implant Prosthesis...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Faulty breast implants fraud trial: Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) boss Jean-Claude Mas is jailed for four years - Mirror Online

Founder of faulty breast implants firm PIP is jailed for four years in France10 Dec 2013 20:42 An estimated 47,000 British women had been given implants containing industrial-grade silicone made by Poly Implant Prothese boss Jean-Claude MasThe founder of a French firm that made dodgy breast implants used by 47,000 British women was today jailed for four years.Poly Implant Prothese boss Jean-Claude Mas, 74, was convicted of aggravated fraud after using industrial-grade silicone in implants that were sold worldwide.Mas, dubbed “the sorcerer’s apprentice...

PIP breast implant founder sentenced to four years - Telegraph

PIP breast implant founder sentenced to four years - Telegraph Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of PIP, the French firm at the centre of a global scandal over defective breast implants, was yesterday found guilty of fraud and sentenced to four years in prison. Four other former executives were also convicted and given lesser sentences — from 18 months to three years — after one of the biggest trials ever seen in France.Cheers erupted in the courtroom in Marseille, southern France this morning from around 50 women present out of at total of 7,113 civil...

Jail for faulty breast implant boss

Jail for faulty breast implant boss  Dec 10 - In one of France's biggest ever trials, PIP boss Jean Claude Mas and four colleagues have been sentenced to jail for selling faulty breast implants. The ensuing health scare affected an estimated 300,000 women. David Pollard repor...

Monday, 9 December 2013

JUDGEMENT EXPECTED IN PIP BREAST IMPLANT TRIAL

Judgement expected in PIP breast implant trial World PIP France Jean Claude Mas A court in Marseille is expected to deliver its verdict today in the case against Jean-Claude Mas - the head of a French company accused of selling 300,000 faulty PIP breast implants. Mas, along with other former bosses at Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), is accused of aggravated fraud for using industrial-grade silicone in the implants. An estimated 300,000 women have been given the implants worldwide, including around 47,000 in the UK. French authorities took all...

Faulty PIP Breast Impants Case Ruling Due

Faulty PIP Breast Impants Case Ruling ...

What sanctions after the scandal PIP implants? | Minutes PIP | Var-Matin

What sanctions after the scandal PIP implants? | Minutes PIP | Var-Ma...

Judgment at trial PIP on Tuesday: "I want to hear the word guilty" - Society - MYTF1News

Judgment at trial PIP on Tuesday: "I want to hear the word guilty" - Society - MYTF1News JUSTICE The Criminal Court Tuesday Marseille makes its judgment in the case of breast implants PIP. Jean-Claude Mas, founder of the Var business risk four years in prison. Provide victims to call "if the penalties are not heavy enough." Read mo...