Dow_Corning_Breast_Implant_Controversy

Dow Corning Breast Implant Controversy Dow Corning's full culpability in the silicone breast implant controversy is not widely known. For decades the company chose to keep secret a series of warning signals about silicone, and made misleading and false statements to the women who received implants. At the time, they did not realize that these secrets, misleading and false statements would rise up, years later, to haunt them. The original Dow Corning sales pitch, in a brochure entitled "Facts About Your New Look," promised a lifetime of safety and satisfaction. Silicone breast implants were advertised as benign and chemically inactive. (In fact, Dow Corning had no substantial evidence of safety, but had plenty of evidence that silicone implants were a high-risk product.) The beginning of the story goes back over 60 years! 1950's-- Silicone injections are banned in Japan because of dangerous side effects, including immunological problems. 1954--A Dow Coming Chemical study finds that a chemical in silicone, called silica, has "quite a high order of toxicity," but this study is not released publicly. 1956-- Again a Dow Corning Chemical study calls into question the safety of silicone, and again it is concealed from the public. Silicone fluid fed to laboratory dogs is found to migrate dow, silicone, implants, corning, breast, settlement, safety, women, implant, chemical, study, coming, against, billion, about, surgeons, plan, company, manufacturers, fda, lawsuits, later, court, because, pay, out, million, jury, judge, internal, health, federal, evidence, even