Evaluation of microbial contamination in multi-dose fluorescein eyedrops in a reference eye center

The environmental impact of single‐dose eye drops

“…Lydia Lam 1,2 Stephen Bacchi PhD 1,2,3 Robert Casson DPhil, FRANZCO 1,2 The use of social and digital media to recruit patients with early and intermediate age-related macular degeneration Social media has many uses in ophthalmology including communication, outreach, patient engagement and education in clinical practice, and for teaching ophthalmology at medical schools. 1 The use of social and digital media to recruit research patients with select phenotypes of ocular diseases is, however, understudied. Our group is building a longitudinal cohort of patients with early and intermediate age-related macular degeneration (eAMD and iAMD, respectively) to investigate the role of systemic biomarkers in AMD progression.…”

“…Single-use eye drops represent the gold-standard of drop instillation to reduce the cross-contamination risk among patients to zero. 1 However, majority of the material generated from single-dose eye drops is discarded into general waste, resulting in significant adverse environmental and financial impacts. 2 Having been in direct contact with the drug product, single-dose eye drops are currently not suitable to be recycled and incur further costs associated with landfill disposal.…”