EU Commission's SCENIHR casts fresh eye over PIP implant safety, MoM hips
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
SCENIHR, the European Commission’s scientific committee that assesses emerging and newly identified health risks, is to give a second opinion in June on the safety of the controversial PIP silicone gel breast implants. The devices, which were filled with industrial-grade silicone and sold worldwide, became the centre of a public health storm at end of 2011 and threw the medtech industry - and the revision on the medical device directives - into turbulent waters last year.