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Artie · #23 (**permalink**) 05-10-2010, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Ynot

I checked out that article. Thanks for posting the link. Here's the bottom line: In an article dated April 19, 2001 CBS News reported that "For years, contact lens manufacturer Johnson & Johnson told consumers to throw away their Acuvue 1-day lenses after a single use and put in a new pair.

This week the company agreed to pay up to a $860 million dollars to settle a lawsuit alleging that Johnson & Johnson misled consumers. The suit claimed the 1-day contacts could last up to 2 weeks.

'Johnson & Johnson misrepresented to consumers [and] to eye care professionals like eye doctors that 1-day contact lenses had some type of special physical property that limited its use to 1 [day] when, in fact, Johnson & Johnson knew very well that that's not true,' says Jay Eisenhoffer, the plaintiff's attorney."

However . . . "One person who is happy with Johnson & Johnson's daily lenses is medical student Emily Rosenbush. Every morning she pops in a new, sterile pair. Even after the lawsuit, she insists that won't change.

'I like the convenience of popping them out, throwing them in the garbage and not worrying about cleansing solutions, or chemicals, or anything like that', says Rosenbush."

There you have it.

There you have...what? CBS News' verbal intro to the student's quote is a red-herring non sequitor; the premise of the lawsuit was not that people were unhappy with J&J's daily lenses, but rather that the plaintiffs disliked being deceived into believing that they HAD TO discard the lenses daily. Obviously, the option of throw-away convenience is a great selling point. But consumers deserve to know that the more-expensive Acuview 2s with 2-week life spans are virtually the same lenses as the less-costly 1-day Acuvues.