You can learn more about the contents of cookies than the contents of hernia mesh from looking at the labels on the packaging.
That should not be the case, says one surgeon who is calling for standardized labels to be placed on the outside of hernia mesh packaging—labels that would be similar to the nutrition fact boxes on foods.
“Nutritional labels have very specific guidelines as to what you report and how. But here are things, meshes, that we implant into