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Other breast implant brands had a 10%to14%4% rupture rate in the same timeframe.
The company said it had seen a rupture rate of about 1percentt a year.
While the rupture rate from amniocentesis is low, the procedure is so common that a significant number of miscarriages occur.
"You will be asked to address the adequacy of the rupture rate information," she told the advisory panel.
"The British government is all hung up on the rupture rate, but that's missing the point," Dr. Mercer said.
So far, no country has reported a rupture rate as high as France's — 5 percent — and most have issued statements meant to reassure implant recipients.
The French government, which apparently keeps better records, says the rupture rate for the PIP devices is about 5.5 percent, more than five times the industry standard.
On Thursday, Laurent Lantieri, a well-known French plastic surgeon, said that he believed that the rupture rate was far higher than the 5 percent the French authorities have thus far indicated.
The key question will be the rupture rate of the implants.
The French government has since quoted a rupture rate of 5%.
"We do not know the exact rupture rate in the UK," he added.
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