Consistent guidelines required for unit-dose eye drops

摘要

Further to Lucy Titcomb's Article "Are quality standards being reduced as eye drops are classified as devices?" (Pf, 26 June 2010, p633), Bausch & Lomb would like to endorse the opinion that it is time for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to update the guidelines on the safe use of unit-dose eye drops. Specifically, we would like to see the same stringent standards of safety applied to unit-dose eye preparations classified as devices through the CE marking scheme as those for unit-dose eye preparations licensed as pharmaceuticals.