PARIS - French police arrested Jean-Claude
Mas, the founder of the breast implant company PIP at the centre of an
international health scare, a police source told AFP Thursday.
"Jean-Claude Mas was arrested at the home
of his companion ... and taken into custody," said the source, adding that
officers had picked him up on Thursday morning.
Mas was arrested over an investigation opened
in December in the southern port of Marseille into the health implications of
PIP's breast implants. Police is investigating possible charges of homicide and
involuntary harm.
French doctors have registered 20 cases of
cancer among women fitted with the implants, 16 of whom had breast cancer,
although as yet no direct causal link has been established.
Between 400,000 and 500,000 women around the
world are believed to have received implants made by Poly Implant Prothese
(PIP), the now-defunct company that Mas founded in southern France.
France, Germany and the Czech Republic have
recommended that the devices be removed as a precaution but Britain has said it
will not follow suit.
The prostheses were withdrawn from the
European market in 2010 after France's health watchdog discovered they were
made from sub-standard, industrial-grade gel.
Frenchman Mas has already confirmed they were
made with a non-authorised silicon gel but has rejected any suggestion that
they pose a health risk.
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