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It also suggested that the original PIP implants were sold under the name Silopren.

Only the standard implant was sold in the United States.

Jean-Claude Mas, the firm's founder, and four of his senior staff stood trial earlier this year over the botched implants which were sold from 2001 to 2010.

They were accused of aggravated fraud and cutting costs by using the concoction in most of the PIP implants that were sold around the world.

His company is accused of using substandard industrial silicone in some of its implants, which were sold globally before being taken off the market in 2010.

While traditional all-metal implants were marketed in this country with little testing, the F.D.A. required producers to run clinical trials of resurfacing implants before they were sold here.

Potentially substandard breast implants made by a French company were sold to about 1,000 Dutch women under a second name, broadening the scope of an investigation that could affect some 300,000 women worldwide.

Unlike new drugs, many of which go through a series of clinical trials before receiving approval from the Food and Drug Administration, critical implants can be sold without such testing if a device, like an artificial hip, resembles an implant already approved and used on patients.

Inamed said it hoped its studies would satisfy the government that its implants could be sold.

Figures from the UK medicines watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority MHRAA), suggest 84,300 PIP implants have been sold in the UK since 2001.

Saline implants have been sold in this country without Food and Drug Administration approval for more than three decades, long before the passage of a 1976 law that gave the agency authority to regulate medical devices.