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" A clinic in Vienna, Austria has weighed in to the breast implant row by offering free implant removals and calling for an &amp;#039;international standard&amp;#039; to be implemented.\u00A0 Dr Thomas Aigner from the Vienna International Medical Clinic is quoted in the Metro as saying that the practice wants &amp;#039;to protect the reputation of the industry&amp;#039; by offering the complimentary procedures. Dr Aigner added that &amp;#039;there should be international standards agreed by the various regulators&amp;#039;. This announcement comes just hours after government health secretary Andrew Lansley attempted to &amp;#039;reassure&amp;#039; women during an interview on BBC Radio 4&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Today&amp;#039; programme. &amp;#039;The risk associated with an operation of that kind would outweigh the benefit of removing these implants,&amp;#039; he said. The scandal surrounds substandard French-made Poly Implant Prosthese (PIP) implants, which were found to contain industrial-grade instead of medical-grade silicone, with concerns that they could rupture. It is estimated that around 40,000 women in the UK have PIP implants.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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