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    Redhot Jumper Food for thought..........................





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    Shopping for glasses on the internet may seem harmless, but did you know that there are regulations for prescribing and dispensing eye glasses that are intended to protect consumers? Many online retailers are not regulated.
    Prescription eyeglasses are classified and regulated as medical devices by Health Canada. Glasses purchased online may not meet Health Canada’s standards.

    To ensure that your optical prescription is not expired (one or two years old), you should have your eyes examined by an optometrist or ophthalmologist regularly. Online sellers cannot assess your overall eye health and are therefore not a substitute for a face-to-face consultation with a regulated eye care professional.

    Even with 20/20 vision, 1 in 7 Canadians will develop a serious eye disorder
    Once you have a prescription you may purchase eyewear from a regulated eyewear provider. These trained professionals have the know-how to properly interpret your prescription and help you select the frames, lenses and lens coatings that are best suited to your individual eye-health needs.

    Getting proper eye measurements and advice is the only way to ensure your prescription provides ideal vision correction and is safe. The curvature and thickness of the lenses, the location of the optical centre in the frames and the position of bifocal or progressive lenses (if required) can affect your vision correction and is best determined in person by a vision health professional. Proper fitting eyeglasses will help you avoid fatigue, headaches, nausea, double vision, and pain or pressure around the nose or ears.
    The CAO website has a find an optometrist feature to help you take the first step toward making an appointment for an eye health examination.

    Eye health means more than just getting new glasses

    read all of it --------------------> http://opto.ca/openyoureyes/your-eye...pen-your-eyes/

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    CONGRATULATIONS ODS !! You are at least making an attempt !

    BTW what's happening with the internet ? Are all of you making progress together and filing complaints to uphold local applicable laws with the search engines ? You do remember how others have successfully done this to the tune of 500 million dollars ? It worked in the UK and it worked in the United States.... are all of you in agreement and about ready to file ?

    If regulatory bodies don't uphold the local applicable laws that they wrote then membership might start to question the reason for their existence and those laws. Some might argue that Regulatory bodies are in violation of the very laws they wrote by refusal to do everything in their power to uphold.

    Idle chit chat and round table discussions become unbelievable after a few years of nothingness.
    Last edited by idispense; 02-15-2013 at 02:27 PM.

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    Its interesting that Regulators think they can make one post to their web site and discharge their duty to protect the public and warn them. How many of the public would ever think to look on a Regulators web site for info about buying on line ? Pretty ridiculous isn't it ? If posting that info to their web site was a good idea to protect the public then onliners would post their ads to the Regulators web site too ( but then they would go broke for lack of traffic) .


    For the most part some of those web sites are ancient , they don't even update past 2010 regarding Great Glasses legal information. That is a huge diservice to both the public and the membership and very disrespectful considering the size of the legal bills paid out.

    Just more garbage.

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