Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Walgreens Pulling All ReNu Products


from Breitbart

Walgreen Co., the No. 1 U.S. drugstore chain, has told its stores to pull all ReNu products from its shelves, not just the MoistureLoc product that has come under fire, while Wal-Mart and other stores are only removing MoistureLoc.

On Monday, Bausch & Lomb Inc. said it would stop shipping its ReNu MoistureLoc contact lens solution in the United States after some users were diagnosed with a serious eye infection.

Walgreens will continue to sell other Bausch & Lomb products.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, stopped selling ReNu MoistureLoc pending further test results from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Rite Aid Corp., the third-largest U.S. drugstore chain, is removing MoistureLoc products but continuing to sell other products in the ReNu line.

The source of a spike in dangerous fungal eye infections linked by federal health officials to a contact lens solution sold by Bausch & Lomb Inc. remains a mystery.

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