Stop dithering on Brazilian butt lift crackdown, say MPs

A committee of MPs warns tighter restrictions on high-risk cosmetic procedures are needed immediately.

Brazilian butt lifts should be banned in UK amid ‘wild west’ industry, MPs say

Lack of regulation leading to procedures being carried out in sheds, hotel rooms and public toilets, committee finds Brazilian butt lifts should be banned in the UK, MPs have said, as a report found a lack of regulation had led to a “wild west” of cosmetic procedures being carried out in garden sheds, hotel rooms and public toilets. The women and equalities committee (WEC) said high risk procedures such as non-surgical buttock augmentation should be outlawed immediately, and a licensing system for lower risk treatments was urgently needed. People with no training can carry out potentially harmful procedures, putting the public at risk, the group of MPs added. Continue reading...

By Andrew Gregory Health editor