by Joel Harrison
3. January 2012 10:40
A Conservative MP, Pat Davidson, has proposed a bill introducing regulation of cosmetic contact lenses in Canada in order to protect their users from eye complications.
Pat Davidson stated that she wanted "to close regulatory loopholes for unsafe non-corrective cosmetic contact lenses." The bill, which is supposed to be debated this month, is an amendment to the Canadian Food and Drugs Act, making non-correction cosmetic contact lenses be treated exactly the same as corrective contact lenses.
Taking the support for previous regulations concerning medical devices into consideration, experts believe that Davidson’s bill should be accepted by the Canadian Parliament. The head of the Canadian Association of Optometrists, Lillian Linton supported the bill and asked MPs to vote for it and enforce it as soon as possible.
According to Davidson, a number of Canadians wear non-corrective contact lenses sold in department stores unaware of the risk of damage to their eyes such lenses cause. Linton agreed with that and added the problem mostly concerns young people, which makes it an even more pressing matter.
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