The Frenchman who sold tens of thousands of faulty silicone breast implants around the world has been jailed for fraud.

Hundreds of women given faulty breast implants have gathered at a French court for the trial of five executives accused of using cheap industrial silicone in their manufacturing.

Ruptured PIP breast implants should not cause any long-term health problems, experts have said.

Health authorities are trying to trace hundreds more Irish women who may have received the potentially dangerous PIP breast implants as far back as 1997.

The founder of the French breast implant firm linked to a global health scare has been jailed.

A French judge has charged the founder of the breast implant company at the heart of a global health scare with causing “involuntary injuries“, prosecutors said.

French authorities have filed preliminary charges against the former head of a now-defunct company embroiled in a scandal over possibly faulty breast implants affecting thousands of women.

The former head of a French company at the centre of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide, was arrested along with his former deputy yesterday.

The former senior executive of the French company at the centre of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide has been arrested, police said today.

FRENCH breast implant manufacturer PIP used a fuel additive in its now-banned implants which the company knew were defective as early as 2005, it was revealed yesterday.

FRANCE’S health minister tried to calm women’s fears over potentially dangerous breast implants yesterday, saying there was no medical need to remove them immediately.

France has agreed to pay for 30,000 women to have potentially faulty breast implants removed, as authorities called for those behind their manufacture to be held responsible.

The chief executive of a French company whose questionable breast implants are under international scrutiny is on the Interpol police agency’s most-wanted list.