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Protecting Contact Lens Patients From Abuses by Unscrupulous Internet Sellers
In a significant victory in Washington, DC, for ODs across the country and their patients, in the early morning hours of December 8, 2006, Congress voted down a special interest contact lens sales and distribution provision backed by a two-year, $2.2 million anti-optometry lobbying campaign undertaken by 1-800 CONTACTS, Inc., an online contact lens sales company warned by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission about non-compliance with the prescription verification safeguards included in the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (FCLCA).
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