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Article: Firm faces action for selling contact lenses by mail order
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 29, 1997
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A company selling contact lenses by direct mail is to be
prosecuted for failing to provide customers with adequate
supervision. The General Optical Council decided it would take
legal action against Vision Direct and its directors for selling
cut-price contact lenses without the supervision of a qualified
doctor or optician.
Customers of the company, which has been operating for four
months, can get replacement contact lenses by sending it a
prescription and lenses packaging. The General Optical Council
claims this breaks regulations requiring a registered doctor or
optician to supervise every sale of contact lenses.
A spokesman said: "We believe that the requirement that contact
lenses are ...