A woman in the UK, who received faulty implants made by a French firm, has said that Lloyds TSB refunded her a sum of £3,700 as she was sold faulty goods.

Credit card companies generally provide a form of insurance for all the customers paying more than 100 for a product that is found to be faulty. The women, who works as a hairdresser, is from the Midlands in the UK and wants to be unnamed. He had received her implant treatment in 2008.

Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) sold as many as 300,000 implants around the world, which were found to be harmful to the health of the women. The implants were found to be with industrial-grade silicone gel and were linked with risks of cancer. The company was closed down in France and ban was imposed on the implants.

The European Commission is expected to present proposals later this year with much tougher rules and regulations. The commission ahs been reviewing the rules form the last three years and will present its recommendations later this year.

In the UK, there are about 40,000 women who received the implants out of which 2,000 of them had them for medical reasons under the National Health Service. Some women are pursuing legal actions against clinics that used implants. PIP was shut down in 2010 following an order from the French authorities.