What has led to the spate of lubricating drop contaminations this year?
The recent alerts of eye drop recall may be a result of several factors.
First, the unknown strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in EzriCare eye drops in February began cropping up across the country. Federal investigators were prompted to take action, and they employed an innovative genomic fingerprinting approach to connect instances associated with contaminated eye drop use.
Second, over 50% of the medications consumed in the US are produced abroad, but at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the FDA considerably curtailed its ongoing inspections of international manufacturing facilities. While the reduction in oversight was temporary, it may have enabled product contamination to go unchecked.
Finally, until recently, infections from contaminated lubricated drops were rare. Given the serious sterility issues it discovered in the manufacturing process during its initial inspections, the FDA was forced to do further investigation and found yet more problems, which may have led to another eye drop recall after another.
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My are very infected from one of the eye drops on the list the FDA recalled.
Why did you not name the 27 drops ? People want to know the names so they can avoid buying those products. Thank you.
I agree
I have been using other eye drops for itchy eyes, dry eyes etc…I have seen my left eye getting worse. I have used Refresh, Pataday and others
Thank you for the article very informative
Since the last recall on eye drops I have been afraid to buy any eye drops
We’re the list.
So the list is on the FDA website on the first page. That gives you the list.
Is Zaditor and Systane ok?
What are the names of the eye drops NOT to use. Please send me the list.
Thank you
My husband’s eyes were in pretty good shape for his age, fast forward 8 months later, suddenly had glaucoma in both his eyes after using the CVS brand re-wet drops, never realizing that something was wrong until after I used the same drops a few months later, then one of my eyes started to mess up as if my retina was trying to tear away from my eye when my eyes were in good shape just four or five months prior to me using the Cvs brand rewet single eye drops, now I’m at a dilemma. How can I prove that it was these drops that’s causing these problems in our eyes. Of course we stop using the drops a long time ago, but I still have them just in case I find out where to have them tested. I need figure out how to prove that these drops messed up our eyes. I didn’t know there was a recall on them. Please reach out if you have information on who I should reach out to. Thank you so much in advance.
Please send me the list of the 27 eyedrops that has been recall.