In an update to our feature article on the recent contact lens legislation controversy published last week, today the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) declared its support of Senate Bill 2777, the Contact Lens Consumer Health Act.
According to AAO, they are supporting the legislation because each year its member physicians and surgeons treat thousands of patients with potentially blinding corneal eye ulcers and many cases are the result of ill-fitting contact lenses "acquired through loopholes in the current law that enable them to be sold without a verified prescription."
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Source: American Academy of Ophthalmology