American Optometric Association Backs Contact Lens Patient Safety Bill Sponsored by Kentucky's Rep. Whitfield ; Federal Measure Would Protect Consumers

U.S. Newswire, September, 2006

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Optometric Association, the voice of the 34,000 frontline providers of eye and vision care in communities across America, today announced its support for legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives designed to safeguard consumers from deficient or illegal contact lens prescription verification practices used by the Internet and mail order contact lens sales industry.

Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), a leader in Congress on patient safety issues and chairman of the Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee, introduced the Contact Lens Consumer ...