FTC Issues Warning Letters Regarding the Agency’s Contact Lens Rule

The Federal Trade Commission has issued warning letters to contact lens sellers and prescribers alleged to be in violation of the agency’s Contact Lens Rule, which can result in fines of up to $16,000 per violation.

Sent were 45 letters to contact lenses prescribers and 10 to lens sellers, warning them of potential violations of the rule. Warnings to sellers alleged they had sold contact lenses to consumers without either obtaining a copy of a valid contact lens prescription or verifying the consumer’s contact lens prescription with the eye care prescriber. Letters to prescribers alleged a failure to provide a consumer with a contact lens prescription upon completion of a contact lens fitting.

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