From Saskya Vandoorne, CNN January 26, 2012 -- Updated 1450 GMT (2250 HKT) His company is linked to a health scare in the U.S., Europe and South America French police are investigating involuntary homicide and harm over the implants An estimated 300,000 women in 65 countries received PIP implants Paris (CNN) -- The founder of a French company that makes breast implants linked to a health scare was arrested Thursday, the French national police said. Mas was arrested in connection with an investigation into involuntary homicide and harm following the cancer death of a French woman with PIP implants in 2010, police in Marseille said. The probe was opened in December by prosecutors in Marseille. Marseille police and and public health officials are conducting the investigation, police said. German medical groups recommended this month that women seek removal of PIP breast implants, saying they need not hurry but the devices could pose eventual health problems. The British government says there is still no statistical data to show that PIP implants are either toxic or more prone to rupturing than others. "The (National Health Service) will support removal of PIP implants if, after this consultation, the patient still has concerns and with her doctor she decides that it is right to do so," he said. CNN's Pierre Meilhan, Atika Shubert, Diana Magnay and Stefan Simons contributed to this report.