Ophthalmic drugs face FDA issues again, one manufacturer responsible for 26 contaminated products

The FDA has warned cus­tomers not to pur­chase or use 26 over-the-counter eye drops from six dif­fer­ent brands due to risk of eye in­fec­tions that can cause “par­tial vi­sion loss or blind­ness,” as per an FDA re­port.

All 26 eye drop prod­ucts are pro­duced by one un­named man­u­fac­tur­er who was told on Oct. 25 to re­call all batch­es of its eye drops af­ter an FDA in­spec­tion found un­san­i­tary con­di­tions at its fa­cil­i­ty, in­clud­ing pos­i­tive bac­te­r­i­al test re­sults that could lead to prod­uct con­t­a­m­i­na­tion.

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