CLEER aims to regulate plano contact lenses

UK practitioners are being urged by the organisers of the Contact Lens European Evidence Reporting (CLEER) Project, a web-based evidence gathering initiative, to become registered reporters for the scheme, which has just four more months to run.

Managed by the European Contact Lens Forum (ECLF), the project's main goal is to provide concrete evidence about significant adverse incidents in Europe induced or related to contact lens use (including non-corrective or cosmetic lenses) to bring about legislation to ensure greater protection of the public.

ECLF hopes this data will be used to help lobby European authorities to regulate plano cosmetic contact lenses as medical devices in order to offer protection to the public.