FDA warns consumers not to purchase or use certain eye drops from several major brands due to risk of eye infection

[11/15/2023] The manufacturer, Kilitch Healthcare India Limited, has issued a voluntary recall for these products. FDA recommends confirming products the agency provided in the list below.

[11/3/2023] Cardinal Health Inc. has initiated a voluntarily recall for all lots of six Leader brand ophthalmic products. The list FDA provided on October 27 included five products branded as Leader. The list has been updated to include the sixth product.

Additionally, Harvard Drug Group LLC also initiated a voluntary nationwide recall for all lots of two Rugby Laboratories brand eye drops.

The agency has updated the list of products to include the national drug codes (NDCs) that have been confirmed. FDA will provide additional information as it becomes available.

[10/30/2023] FDA is updating the list of over-the-counter eye drop products consumers should not purchase or use to include Equate Hydration PF Lubricant Eye Drop 10 mL sold by Walmart in stores and online. Walmart is removing the product from their store shelves and website.

[10/27/2023] FDA is warning consumers not to purchase and to immediately stop using 26 over-the-counter eye drop products due to the potential risk of eye infections that could result in partial vision loss or blindness. Patients who have signs or symptoms of an eye infection after using these products should talk to their health care provider or seek medical care immediately. These products are marketed under the following brands:

• CVS Health
• Leader (Cardinal Health)
• Rugby (Cardinal Health)
• Rite Aid
• Target Up & Up
• Velocity Pharma

These products are intended to be sterile. Ophthalmic drug products pose a potential heightened risk of harm to users because drugs applied to the eyes bypass some of the body’s natural defenses.

FDA recommended the manufacturer of these products recall all lots on October 25, 2023, after agency investigators found insanitary conditions in the manufacturing facility and positive bacterial test results from environmental sampling of critical drug production areas in the facility. FDA also recommends consumers properly discard these products.

CVS, Rite Aid and Target are removing the products from their store shelves and websites. Products branded as Leader, Rugby and Velocity may still be available to purchase in stores and online and should not be purchased.

FDA has not received any adverse event reports of eye infection associated with these products at this time. FDA encourages health care professionals and patients to report adverse events or quality problems with any medicine to FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program:

• Complete and submit the report online at Medwatch; or
• Download and complete the form, then submit it via fax at 1-800-FDA-0178.

Eye Drop Retailers and Product Information

Retailer/Brand	Product	Product Information	National Drug Code (NDC)
CVS Health	Lubricant Eye Drops 15 ml (single pack)	Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium 0.5%	76168-702-15
CVS Health	Lubricant Eye Drops 15 ml (twin pack)	Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium 0.5%	76168-702-30
CVS Health	Lubricant Gel Drops 15 ml (single pack)	Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium 1%	76168-704-15
CVS Health	Lubricant Gel Drops 15 ml (twin pack)	Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium 1%	76168-704-30
CVS Health	Multi-Action Relief Drops 15 ml	Polyvinyl Alcohol 0.5%, Povidone 0.6%, and Tetrahydrozoline Hydrochloride 0.05%	76168-706-15
CVS Health	Lubricant Gel drops 10 ml	Polyethylene Glycol 400 0.4% and Propylene Glycol 0.3%	76168-712-10
CVS Health	Lubricant Eye Drops 10 ml (single pack)	Propylene Glycol 0.6%	76168-714-10
CVS Health	Lubricant Eye Drops 10 ml (twin pack)	Propylene Glycol 0.6%	76168-714-20
CVS Health	Mild Moderate Lubricating Eye Drops 15 ml (single pack)	Polyethylene Glycol 400 0.25%	76168-711-15
Leader (Cardinal Health)	Eye Irritation Relief 0.5 FL OZ (15 ml)	Polyvinyl Alcohol 0.5%, Povidone 0.6% and Tetrahydrozoline Hydrochloride 0.05%	70000-0087-1
Leader (Cardinal Health)	Dry Eye Relief 0.5 FL OZ (15 ml)	Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium 1%	70000-0089-1
Leader (Cardinal Health)	Lubricant Eye Drops 0.5 FL OZ (15 ml) (single)	Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium 0.5%	70000-0090-1
Leader (Cardinal Health)	Lubricant Eye Drops 0.5 FL OZ (15 ml) (twin pack)	Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium 0.5%	70000-0090-2 (carton)70000-0090-1 (bottle)
Leader (Cardinal Health)	Dry Eye Relief 0.33 FL OZ (10 ml)	Polyethylene Glycol 400 0.4% and Propylene Glycol 0.3%	70000-0088-1
Leader (Cardinal Health)	Lubricant Eye Drops 0.33 FL OZ (10 ml)	Polyethylene Glycol 0.6%	70000-0587-1
Rugby (Harvard Drug Group)	Lubricating Eye Drops 0.5 oz (15 ml)	Polyvinyl Alcohol 1.4%	0536-1325-94
Rugby (Harvard Drug Group)	Lubricating Tears Eye Drops 0.5 oz (15 ml)	Dextran/Hypromellose 0.1%/0.3%	0536-1282-94
Rite Aid	Lubricant Eye Drops 15 ml (twin pack)	Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium 0.5%	11822-9707-5
Rite Aid	Lubricant Eye Drops 10 ml (twin pack)	Propylene Glycol 0.6%	11822-4811-3
Rite Aid	Gentle Lubricant Gel Eye Drops 15 ml	Hypromellose 0.3%, Glycerin 0.2%, Dextran 70 0.1%	Not provided by the manufacturer
Rite Aid	Lubricant Gel Drops 15 ml	Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium 1%	11822-9706-5
Rite Aid	Lubricating Gel Drops 10 ml	Polyethylene Glycol 400 0.4% and Propylene Glycol 0.3%	11822-4540-3
Rite Aid	Multi-Action Relief Drops 15 ml	Polyvinyl Alcohol 0.5%, Povidone 0.6% and Tetrahydrozoline Hydrochloride 0.05%	11822-2254-3
Target	Up&Up Dry Eye Relief 15 ml	Polyethylene Glycol 400 0.4% and Propylene Glycol 0.3%	76168-800-30
Target	Up&Up High Performance Lubricant Eye Drops 15 ml (single pack)	Polyethylene Glycol 400 0.4% and Propylene Glycol 0.3%	11673-522-15
Target	Up&Up High Performance Lubricant Eye Drops 15 ml (twin pack)	Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium 0.5%	11673-522-30
Velocity Pharma LLC	Lubricant Eye Drop 10 ml (triple pack)	Propylene Glycol 0.6%	76168-502-30
Walmart	Equate Hydration PF Lubricant Eye Drop 10 mL	Polyethylene Glycol 400 0.4% and Propylene Glycol 0.3%	79903-168-01

Nov 22 Spain delegates “New Laws” against slavery in America in the year 1542.

The New Laws, also known as the New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians, were issued on November 20, 1542, by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and regard the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Following complaints and calls for reform from individuals such as the Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas, these laws were intended to prevent the exploitation and mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas by the encomenderos, by strictly limiting their power and dominion over groups of natives. The text of the New Laws has been translated into English.

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By Christopher Minster – Thoughtco.com

Updated March 21, 2021

The “New Laws” of 1542 were a series of laws and regulations approved by the King of Spain in November of 1542 to regulate the Spaniards who were enslaving Indigenous people in the Americas, particularly in Peru. The laws were extremely unpopular in the New World and led to a civil war in Peru. The furor was so great that eventually King Charles, fearing that he would lose his new colonies entirely, was forced to suspend many of the more unpopular aspects of the new legislation.

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The Department of Defense is prohibited by federal statute from providing coverage for abortion care except when a pregnant woman’s life is endangered. The ban provides no exception for cases of rape and incest ¹. This ban is particularly galling because servicewomen are especially vulnerable to sexual assault ¹. Despite the Department of Defense’s efforts, sexual assault in the military persists. Reporting an assault is difficult enough and should a woman become pregnant as a result of rape, she should be able to obtain the same care available to civilian women who rely on the government for their health care needs ¹. Further, military women confront an additional barrier to abortion access when serving overseas. In addition to banning military health insurance from covering abortion care, federal law prohibits military treatment facilities from providing abortion services to women even when patients pre-pay the entire cost of the procedure with their own private funds. This second ban, which has a narrow exception for life endangerment, rape, and incest, imposes grave health risks and leaves servicewomen and their families far worse off than civilian women ¹.

The ACLU has introduced the Military Access to Reproductive Care and Health (MARCH) for Military Women Act, which would provide coverage (funding) for abortion in cases of rape and incest for servicewomen and dependents who rely on the military health system for their healthcare and lift the current ban on using private funds to pay for abortion on military hospitals ¹. The bill aims to provide our military women, who serve and sacrifice, with the same access to abortion care that civilian women receive ¹.

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LIFT THE ABORTION BANS: U.S. SERVICEWOMEN DESERVE EQUAL TREATMENT, FAIRNESS AND COMPASSION – ACLU

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