On April 28, 2005, IMPA filed a petition with the FDA, asking that the public be warned about the true cause of myopia and the dangers of using minus lenses to treat it. On August 2, 2006, 15 months later, the FDA notified IMPA that the petition was being denied. The FDA decided to turn its bureaucratic back on the hundreds of millions of children who are being made into visual cripples by their eye doctors. They denied our request to put the matter before their own Ophthalmic Devices Panel for discussion. For the whole story, read:
Letter of Support
from Donald Janiuk, Past President of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development.
Note that his request to present data to the Opthalmic Devices Panel was ignored.
The Rejection Letter of August 2, 2006
Note: If you have a dial-up Internet connection, you may see a blank screen for several minutes while this PDF file is downloading.
FDA Rejection Letter Comments
Our September 11, 2006 reply to the FDA's Rejection Letter.
Sent to Daniel G. Schultz, Director of CDRH.
No reply was ever received.
Letter of June 6, 2015 to Health and Human Services
On June, 6, 2015, we wrote to Sylvia Burwell, head of Health and Human Services,
informing her that the FDA and the National Eye Institute were promoting and covering up a consumer crime.
FDA rejection letter of June 30, 2015
The HHS agency merely sent the above letter on the the FDA. Here is their email reply.
They say they need more scientific information while there is a wealth of information available from decades of research.
They obviously just don't care.
Letter of July 1, 2015 to Health and Human Services
We wrote again to Sylvia Burwell, pointing out the folly of just sending our letter on to the FDA.
No reply was ever received.