Contact-lens cleaner recalled over infections

Deseret News (Salt Lake City), May 16, 2006

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Bausch & Lomb Inc. has permanently withdrawn a new-formula contact-lens cleaner viewed as the "potential root cause" of a far-flung outbreak of fungal eye infections known to cause blindness. Its stock, hit hard over the last month, rose nearly 13 percent.

The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that the eye-care company thinks ReNu with MoistureLoc's unique disinfecting and moisturizing agents "in certain unusual circumstances can increase the risk" of developing Fusarium keratitis, adding that the way some people used the solution may have contributed.