| ■ Contact-Lens Solution Recalled for Bacterial Contamination | 06.11.27 |
| A California-based optical company is recalling 2.9 million bottles of contact-lens cleaner following reports some bottles sold in Japan had bacterial contamination. The voluntary recall of the 12-ounce COMPLETE MoisturePLUS solution is mainly in Asia, but it does cover 183,000 units in the United States, which is a fraction of what is distributed, according to a spokeswoman for Advanced Medical Optics Inc., in Santa Ana. The spokeswoman told Bloomberg that there had been fewer than 10 complaints in Japan about the non-sterile solution and no problems reported in the United States. The company said that it had traced the contaminated units to its plant in China and found that the waterborne Ralstonia bacteria had compromised the disinfectant in the solution and were eating away at the oxygen in the bottles. The company's plant in Spain, which makes most of the solutions sold in Europe and the United States, will remain open while the plant in China is closed for sterilization and upgrades, the company said. Bacterial infections are the most common type of infection associated with contact lenses and are usually easily cured with eye drops, according to experts. Fungal infections, such as the one linked to the major recall in May of Bausch & Lomb's ReNu with MoistureLoc lens cleaner, are more difficult to treat. ----- Yahoo Healthday |