PIP breast implant link to foetal risk ‘alarming’

Solicitors representing some of the Irish women who received faulty PIP breast implants have said new claims about potential risk to unborn children are “alarming” and could influence legal actions.

A new report published in the British Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine has claimed that the faulty implants, made by the French firm Poly Implant Prosthese (PIP), could threaten developing foetuses.

The report’s authors said the implants contain a high proportion of molecules known as D4 that act as an endocrine-disrupting chemical that in low doses can harm the unborn child.