Fake CIBA CLs seized at Singapore stores

Counterfeit CIBA Vision Freshlook ColorBlends were seized from five optical stores in Singapore by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) in what is described as the first known case of counterfeit health products found with legitimate suppliers.

CIBA said this was the first time its lenses had been counterfeited and that it was alerted to the counterfeiting when some shops tried to exchange the products.

The fakes, some 100 boxes, were described by Singapore News as looking almost authentic apart from typographical errors on the packaging. Lab tests found them to be very different, with the colour pigments found on the internal surface of the lens rather than the external surface.