“Please take textured breast implants off the market,” the rural Alberta woman said in a firm voice during a Monday hearing on breast implant safety. Health Canada has documented 28 confirmed and another 28 suspected cases of BIA-ALCL in Canada, Amanda Jones, a senior scientific evaluator for Health Canada, told the FDA committee. Of the total 56 cases, 45 have been attributed to textured implants, Jones said. She urged officials at the FDA hearing Monday to "please evoke your full authority to withdraw textured implants ? Following publication, Health Canada and the FDA launched scientific reviews as countries in Europe were pulling the devices off the market.

Source: thestar March 26, 2019 16:30 UTC