No Testing, No Inspections: Contaminated Eyedrops Blinded and Killed Americans

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No Testing, No Inspections: Contaminated Eyedrops Blinded and Killed Americans

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This is SUPER, SUPER scary to me! As a semi-rigid gas permeable contact lens wearer I have to regularly use solutions for my contact lenses including some that I leave on the lens before inserting them on my eyes (which I still hate doing even after having done it for almost 50 years).

What would the libertarian response to this be?



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No Testing, No Inspections: Contaminated Eyedrops Blinded and Killed Americans
How a drugstore staple, made in an Indian factory and tainted with an antibiotic-resistant superbug, slipped past the FDA.
ByPeter Robison and Priyanka Pulla
July 17, 2023 at 7:00 PM EDT
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Re: No Testing, No Inspections: Contaminated Eyedrops Blinded and Killed Americans

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Terrifying.

I do happen to know that preservative-free eyedrops come in individual containers, so that would have been a red flag for me, but that's just luck, basically.
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