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CIBA files suit against companies for illegal sale of color lenses
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ATLANTA – CIBA Vision Corp. has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta against two Georgia companies, alleging illegal distribution and sale of color contact lenses. The lawsuit was filed Sept. 12 against C&C Trading Company, Inc., of Doraville, Ga., and MAS Wholesale & Retail and its owner Michelle Signh of Riverdale, Ga. It claims that these companies are engaged in the sale and distribution of color contact lenses without prescriptions, without providing instructions for use and without medical advisories required by law. Currently, all contact lenses – regardless of whether they are intended for vision correction or only cosmetic purposes – are regulated as medical devices by the FDA, and Georgia law specifically prohibits the sale of any contact lens without a prescription. The FDA is currently considering a plan to reclassify tinted contact lenses that do not correct vision as cosmetic devices rather than medical devices. CIBA Vision has voiced its opposition to this plan and its support of continued FDA regulation of color contact lenses.