FDA Frustrated with CooperVision's Recall

"Frustrated by a brazen disregard of its request, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is threatening to widely publicize potential problems with recalled contact lenses made by a western New York firm and sold in stores such as Costco, Wal-Mart and Lenscrafters," reports MPOMag. "CooperVision Inc. of Fairport, N.Y., (located nine miles east of Rochester) reportedly has failed to heed a request by the FDA to broaden notification of problems with certain lots of its Avaira Toric contact lenses, which were recalled quietly in August due to unidentified “residue.” Company executives said the recall affected about 600,000 contact lenses in the United States, or 10 percent of those sold or issued domestically as samples." Read more.