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Pressure on the FDA increased over the last few years as doctors, patients and women's health activists continued to express concern about the safety of the implants...
...April of 1991, a congressional subcommittee told implant manufacturers they had 90 days to prove their products were safe or to pull them off the market. The FDA eventually found the manufacturers' reports unsatisfactory, and criticized companies for reassuring patients that the devices were perfectly safe...
Last month, the FDA requested that doctors and manufacturers participate in a voluntary moratorium, halting the use and distribution of silicone implants until further notice...
...Harvard Medical School, doctors are critical of the way the FDA has handled the situation...
...FDA has been irresponsible. They've had jurisdiction since 1976 and they've been dragging their feet," said Dr. Nicholas E. O'Connor, a plastic surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital. "They're not releasing information on how risky it is, and they haven't said what [doctors] should...