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Clear Conscience, LLC Introduces New Cruelty-Free, Non-Irradiated Multi-Purpose Contact Lens Solution.


ARLINGTON, Va.--(BW HealthWire)--Oct. 13, 1999--

Clear Conscience, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
, a company that introduced the first cruelty-free, preservative-free, CFC-free, environmentally safe and FDA FDA
abbr.
Food and Drug Administration


FDA,
n.pr See Food and Drug Administration.

FDA,
n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration.
 approved sterile Saline Solution for Contact Lenses has introduced the first cruelty-free, non-irradiated and FDA approved Multi-Purpose Solution for cleaning, disinfecting, storing and rinsing contact lenses.

"I started the business because contact lens products were the only product I needed that I couldn't find in health food stores," Stephen Bartell, Clear Conscience founder, said. A natural resources lawyer in Washington, D.C., Bartell explains that "I have always been concerned about environmental and cruelty issues, and creating Clear Conscience Contact Lens Saline Solution and Multi-Purpose Solution gave me a way to fill this need."

Since its introduction in the fall of 1998, Clear Conscience Saline Solution for Contact Lenses has gone on sale in almost 40 states, including Whole Foods Markets and Wild Oats Markets Wild Oats Markets is the operator of natural foods stores and farmers markets in North America. The stores offer dry grocery, meat, poultry, seafood, dairy, frozen, prepared foods, bakery, vitamins and supplements, health and body care, and household items. , the country's two largest chains of natural product supermarkets.

"Clear Conscience is dedicated to providing the approximately 32 million Americans who wear contact lenses with products that are completely safety tested without the use of animals," Bartell said. "We want those who wear contact lenses around the world to be able to have clean, clear contact lenses and a clear conscience." In fact, Clear Conscience donates ten percent of all proceeds to environmental and animal welfare charitable organizations.

Clear Conscience Multi-Purpose Contact Lens Solution is an isotonic isotonic /iso·ton·ic/ (-ton´ik)
1. denoting a solution in which body cells can be bathed without net flow of water across the semipermeable cell membrane.

2.
, buffered sterile solution for daily cleaning, disinfecting, storing and rinsing soft (hydrophilic hydrophilic /hy·dro·phil·ic/ (-fil´ik) readily absorbing moisture; hygroscopic; having strongly polar groups that readily interact with water.

hy·dro·phil·ic
adj.
) contact lenses.

Clear Conscience Contact Lens Saline Solution is a Ph balanced, buffered sterile saline solution for rinsing following use with multi-purpose solutions or chemical disinfection disinfection,
n the process of destroying pathogenic organisms or rendering them inert.

disinfection, full oral cavity,
n a procedure used to reduce active periodontal disease, usually completed within a certain short time frame.
, and for use during heat disinfection and for storage of soft (hydrophilic) contact lenses.

For more information, visit our website at www.CLEARCONSCIENCE.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page.  or call Stephen Bartell at 703/527-7566 or 800/595-9592.
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