J&J recalls contact lenses
August 24, 2010
JOHNSON & Johnson has issued
a recall notice for several batches
of its 1 Day Acuvue contact lenses,
some of which have been sold in
Australia as well as Japan, Europe
and several Asian markets.
The company said it had received
a limited number of complaints
from customers in Japan who said
they had experienced an “unusual
stinging or pain” when inserting the
Acuvue TruEye brand lenses.
J&J estimated about 100,000
boxes of lenses manufactured in
Ireland were affectedby the failure
of a piece of equipment which
rinses the lenses during
manufacture.
Affected countries also include
Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong,
South Korea, Austria, Belgium,
Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Liechtenstein, Luxembourg,
Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and
the UK.
A statement issued by J&J said it
hadn’t received reports of
customers with damaged vision.
“The risk of long-term health
consequences is very unlikely,” said
a J&J Vision Care spokesman.
Affected lot numbers (first six
digits) include 492237, 492238,
492239, 492248, 292292,
292249, 492250, 492251,
492266, 492286, 492287,
492288, 492289, 492290,
492268, 492240, 492241,
492242, 492282, 492283,
492279, 492280, 492281,
492252, 492253, 492254,
492244, 492245, 492256 and
492247 of the 1 Day Acuvue
TruEye product.
It’s the ninth time in a year that
J&J has issued recalls of nonprescription
medicines.
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