I have viewed the BBC interview with Professor Sir Kent Woods, chief executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
Again the media demonstrates a bias against MOM devices and we see a more rational view coming from the regulatory agency. The interviewer recommends controlled studies prior to MOM approval. Controlled research studies that would evaluate metal ion affect decisively would require observing effects over the human lifespan. If longitudinal studies were required for every device, we'd still be waiting for results from the first devices implanted in the 1960s, and fusing hips instead. We need to consider the evidence that was weighed when MOM devices were approved, and the results since, to assess whether approval was (and is) reasonable. The media interview weighs a lot of factors against one another but leaves others out and neglects the quantification that makes any analysis meaningful.
What is interesting is the failure of regulatory agencies and general medical establishment to protect against the DePuy products in particular.