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AOP campaign tackles illegal supply online

New AOP campaign highlighting the risks of buying contact lenses online to consumers
- 20 Oct 2021
Campaign Coronavirus Contact lenses
Optometrists warning over illegal and unsafe contact lenses as online buying soars
- 20 Oct 2021
Campaign Coronavirus Contact lenses
Novelty lenses for Halloween, what could really go wrong?

Are scratched eyes, bacterial conjunctivitis and eye ulcers part of your costume this year?
- 19 Oct 2018
Eyewear and lenses Contact lenses Health Patients
AOP warns novelty lens wearers this Halloween

One in 10 optometrists see patients with eye problems after wearing novelty lenses
- 19 Oct 2017
Contact lenses Patients Campaign GOC
Tackling illegal contact lens sales

The AOP and the GOC have produced a leaflet to help tackle the illegal sale of contact lenses
- 11 Sep 2017
Contact lenses