No higher risk from French implants Australia: No higher risk from French implants Jan 4 07:38 PM US/Eastern SYDNEY (AP) - Australian health officials say they have found no evidence that potentially faulty French-made breast implants are at an increased risk of rupture in Australian women. An expert panel of the Therapeutic Goods Administration said in a statement late Wednesday that the silicone implants made by the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese have no higher risk of rupture than other silicone implants. The PIP implants were made with cheap industrial silicone instead of medical grade silicone, and were banned last year in countries around the world after more than 1,000 women in France suffered ruptures. Health experts across the globe have been trying to determine the health risk and whether to tell women to have the implants taken out.