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"Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to follow on from that. We are talking today about medical devices, and I believe we need the strictest approval criteria for these, we need the most stringent checks and we need as much information as possible.
However, I am also convinced that only a minute proportion of the breast implants are actually being used as medical devices in the sense of medical treatment, and that the majority are used in cosmetic surgery. We are talking here about a market worth around EUR 700 million. My question today is therefore – and here I am following on from what Linda McAvan said – to what extent, as those responsible for health, we can justify the fact that a large number of Europeans, primarily women, have such a distorted self-image that they believe they will only really be a woman if they have such implants.
When you look at the fact that around 22% of young people in Europe, primarily women, suffer from eating disorders, and that the image of a young person conveyed to us in advertising and in the media – the image of a proper woman or a proper man – is an image that needs to be corrected if the upshot is that a large number of these people believe they can only restore their feelings of self-worth by means of surgical procedures, then we also need to give some thought to restrictions on advertising for the purposes of preventive health measures."@en1
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