Forensics and contact lenses make it into the international optical press

As the editor of an optical magazine I have a wide range of publications plopping onto my desk.

There's the fantastically upstanding and wordy Insight from Australia ( sorry Neil). The outrageously oversized New Zealand Optics, it's tall and thin and bigger than a tabloid newspaper. The unfeasibly thick  The Indian Optician (I wonder where they got that idea from), a publication which runs to around 220 pages and services a market of 1.2 billion people but still manages to regularly run news stories about Norville and the FMO.

Closer to home are a collection of magazines from the European countries. The southern European states like fashion while there's some technical stuff from Germany including Global Contact, a magazine for the contact lens business.