Understanding the PIP Breast Implant Scandal In 2013, one of the biggest healthcare scandals of the world hit the headlines when over 50,000 British women fell victim to faulty cosmetic breast implants inserted during cosmetic breast surgery operations. The founder of a French company Poly Implant Protheses (PIP) that made the faulty breast implants was called Jean-Claude Mas, he was criminally charged for causing injury to hundreds of thousands of
