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Pass the Vinegar

“Our goal is to offer women an opportunity to achieve a satisfactory image in the safest possible way,” said LipoMatrix Inc. president Terry Knapp, launching a new breast implant filled not with silicone, but salad oil. “It’s natural, safe and secure.” Looking to relive the glory days when “225 million [sic] breast implants were sold” in the U.S. in one year (1990), the company thinks the next big market is Asia. “We anticipate [the current $250 million worldwide market] is going to increase substantially,” Knapp said. (Reuters) ...Those figures sound artificially inflated.


Publication Date: 10 September 1995

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