On June 29, 2007, Bausch and Lomb’s Greenville contact lens solution plant passed inspection by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Renu MoistureLoc contact lens solution manufactured at the plant was recalled and discontinued last year after several hundred reports of Fusarium keratitis, a severe infection of the cornea, in Asia and the United States.

Then, in March 2007, the company recalled about 1.5 million bottles of its ReNu MultiPlus solution made at the same Greenville plant because levels of iron in the product were found to cause the cleaner to be less effective.

Source: “Company says contact lens solution plant clears FDA inspection,” WIStv.com, July 17, 2007.