Contact Lens Solution Recall: An Eye Matter
Everyone makes mistakes, but no one makes mistakes like big corporations – after all, their reach stretches further than one human being. Product recalls, as one of the most severe responses to mistakes, are rare but when they happen, it’s usually because of something disastrous.
Contact lens solution recall might be one of the most seemingly innocent mistakes that costs people their sight if it’s a mistake and some jobs if it isn’t.
Complete MoisturePlus
It’s not exactly a new story for people who use contact lenses and, of course, contact lens cleaning solution. One of the more famous instances of contact lens solution recall, that of Complete MoisturePlus, actually involved the fear that it was inducing rare conditions that could lead to blindness. Manufactured by Advanced Medical Optics, the lens solution was recalled on advice from the CDC, or the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, due to the fact that it could be linked to the aforementioned condition.
This isn’t the first contact lens solution recall that has made people nervous.
ReNu Multiplus
ReNu Multiplus was once a respected contact lens cleaning solution from a trusted company, Bausch & Lomb. Just before the Complete MoisturePlus debacle, they happened, pulling out over one million units from stores around the world. This was quickly followed with a statement that this was in no way related to their previous product, ReNu with Moistureloc contact lens solution, which was also taken out from the shelves because it could potentially cause blindness.
It is simply worrying that once trustworthy companies like Bausch & Lomb would repeatedly send out products that have potentially and severely damaging side effects to their consumers. It is simply irresponsible to have two contact lens solution recalls in a row. It is as if they didn’t learn from their first mistake and instead decided to change the name of the product so they could sell it again.
Responsibility
Both issues actually required doctors to check out the correlation between the cases, rather than actual research from the maker companies themselves. The diseases are different but otherwise the issues are pretty much the same.
Contact lenses or not, it’s a matter of production responsibility. It is like having a company run by toddlers and not the nice, well meaning toddlers either, but the ones that kick during naptime. To be fair, the correlation between product and sickness is unsure; only that there is one and one company made the mistake of releasing a product that has that correlation twice.
Fairness
To be more fair, it is entirely possible that in some cases that it is user misuse that lead to the infection. For MoisturePlus, for example, improper cleaning habits can lead to the water-based infection that caused the product recall. To this day, there are some people being struck down and going either temporarily or permanently blind due to misuse or the product itself.
This is a warning to people; either sometimes people make mistakes or sometimes they don’t care. And in both cases, if you’re their consumer, you might pay for it. It pays to be a vigilant consumer at all times. After all, it’s your health and life that’s on the line.