What are the major requirements of the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act?
The Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act and the Contact Lens Rule which implements the Act require: • Prescribers to give patients a copy of their contact lens prescriptions at the end of a contact lens fitting, even if the patient doesn’t ask for it. • Prescribers to provide or verify the contact lens prescription to anyone who is designated to act on behalf of the patient, including contact lens sellers. • Prescribers to set the prescription expiration date on year or more from the date the prescription is issued to a patient unless in the prescriber’s judgement the patient’s eye health requires a shorter period of time. • Sellers to provide contact lenses only in accordance with a valid prescription that is directly presented to the seller or verified with the prescriber. *Please see the FTC site for more information .
