The French-British Love Hate Relationship Extends to Breasts

France and the United Kingdom issue clashing advice on breast implants

The French government asked approximately 30,000 women to remove their breast implants, made by a defunct French company.  According to the French government, the implants could rupture and cause inflammation and irritation...which has the possibility of leading to cancer.

The British government, however, advised British women who had received the same implants not to worry. 

One would think that the British would listen to the French for once, since the breast implants had come from France in the first place, and the French government is announcing that the implants are dangerous.  Is this a case of latent British "stiff upper lip" reflex, or does the British government put more stock in their National Health Service's research on breast implants than the French research?