Tainted eye drops are back in the news, with federal regulators warning consumers not to use certain eye drops because of contamination concerns.
The two eye drops included in the warning also contain methylsulfonylmethane as an active ingredient. According to the FDA, no legally marketed ophthalmic drugs contain MSM as an, so these products are unapproved drugs and illegally marketed in the United States.
Eye drops are required by federal law to be sterile to be safe for use. The FDA said that it had sampled and tested these products because of the eye drop industry's recent manufacturing issues with eye drops. By late May of this year, a total of 81 cases of serious infections—linked to 10 brands of eye drops contaminated with a rare strain of a drug-resistant bacteria—were reported across the United States.reported, and a total of 14 people experienced vision loss. Four cases involved people with infections so severe that they had to have their eyeballs surgically removed.
The outbreak reported this spring involved 10 brands of eye drops, most commonly EzriCare Artificial Tears. Global Pharma Healthcare's Artificial Tears Lubricant Eye Drops were first
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