Bausch Decides an Eye for an Eye

John Hopkins

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I could not have said it better than an opinion editorial in the Minnesota Daily did on November 8, 2006. The editor discusses Bausch's less than stellar handling of recall for their ReNu with MoistureLoc no rub contact lens solution. The editorial summarizes the timeline of events and ends with:

Would they have pulled the product at all if our country hadn't uncovered the problem? The thought is troubling enough. Three discrete instances of the outbreak weren't sufficient to warrant this action, so it's no stretch to imagine that similar outbreaks would have occurred in other countries without our intervention.

Luckily for those affected, there is a way to seek justice. And as much as we love to bash lawyers in this country, they're the people delivering it. The number of lawsuits prompted by this incident will provide enough punishment so that this company and others will rethink their crisis response strategies. We can only hope that if Bausch & Lomb was responsible, then the litigants who lost their eyesight - or nearly did - take this company to the bank.

You gotta love those folks up in Minnesota!