PARIS (AP) — France wants the European Union to stiffen its rules on authorizing medical devices amid a breast implant scandal involving a French company and affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide, the health minister said Thursday.
Xavier Bertrand called for "an unprecedented change" in EU rules to put authorizations for medical devices, including silicone breast implants, on a par with rules already in place for prescription medicines.
The implants, made by now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese, were pulled from the market last year in several countries in and beyond Europe due to fears they could rupture and leak silicone into the body. France has …
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