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Article: Johnson & Johnson Settles Complaints over Acuvue Contact Lenses.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- April 18, 2001
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By Susan Warner, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 18--Johnson & Johnson, maker of Acuvue contact lenses, has agreed to pay up to $860 million to settle complaints that the New Brunswick health-care company instructed consumers to throw away one-day lenses that could have been worn up to 14 days.
Company documents included in the suit indicate that Acuvue and 1-Day Acuvue lenses are the same product.
An estimated six million contact lens wearers unnecessarily spent $1.1 billion since 1994 because of misleading advertising and packaging, according to a suit filed by consumers in 1996 in New Jersey Superior Court ...