Profile: Bausch & Lomb is the eye health company dedicated to perfecting vision and enhancing life. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of eye health products. Our three broad categories of products are vision care, pharmaceuticals, and cataract & vitreoretinal surgery. Our contact lens offerings span the entire spectrum of wearing modalities, and include well-known brand names such as PureVision®, SofLens®, Boston® and Optima® . Our lens care products include the ReNu® brand of chemical disinfectants for soft contact lenses, as well as the Boston® line of products for cleaning GP contact lenses. We develop & market prescription & over-the-counter drugs used to treat a wide range of eye conditions, including glaucoma, eye allergies, conjunctivitis and dry eye. Our Sight Savers® pre-moistened tissues clean glass and plastic lenses. These are easy, convenient to use and provide anti-fog and anti-static protection. They are excellent for eyeglasses, sunglasses, camera lenses, and computer screens.
The company has revenues of USD 100-500 Million, has ~1000 employees and is ISO 9000, ISO 9001, ISO 9002, CE certified. NYSE:BOL (SEC Filings)
FDA Registration Number: 1920664
• AC-Powered Keratome (FDA Code: HNO / 886.4370) A keratome is an AC-powered or battery-powered device intended to shave tissue from sections of the cornea for a lamellar (partial thickness) transplant. |
• AC-Powered Magnet (FDA Code: HPO / 886.4440) An AC-powered magnet is an AC-powered device that generates a magnetic field intended to find and remove metallic foreign bodies from eye tissue. |
• AC-Powered Radiofrequency Cautery Apparatus (FDA Code: HQR / 886.4100) A radiofrequency electrosurgical cautery apparatus is an AC-powered or battery-powered device intended for use during ocular surgery to coagulate tissue or arrest bleeding by a high frequency electric current. |
• AC-Powered Thermal Soft Lens Sterilizer (FDA Code: HRD / 886.5928) A soft (hydrophilic) contact lens care product is a device intended for use in the cleaning, rinsing, disinfecting, lubricating/rewetting, or storing of a soft (hydrophilic) contact lens. This includes all solutions and tablets used together with soft (hydrophilic) contact lenses and heat disinfecting units intended to disinfect a soft (hydrophilic) contact lens by means of heat. |
• AC-Powered Tonometer (FDA Code: HKX / 886.1930) A tonometer and accessories is a manual device intended to measure intraocular pressure by applying a known force on the globe of the eye and measuring the amount of indentation produced (Schiotz type) or to measure intraocular tension by applanation (applying a small flat disk to the cornea). Accessories for the device may include a tonometer calibrator or a tonograph recording system. The device is intended for use in the diagnosis of glaucoma. |
• AC-Powered Vitreous Aspiration and Cutting Instrument (FDA Code: HQE / 886.4150) A vitreous aspiration and cutting instrument is an electrically powered device, which may use ultrasound, intended to remove vitreous matter from the vitreous cavity or remove a crystalline lens. |
• Accommodating Intraocular Lens |
• Adenoid Curettes (FDA Code: KBJ / 874.4420) |
• Adenoid Punches (FDA Code: KBS / 874.4420) |
• Adenotomes (FDA Code: KBH / 874.4420) |
• Adson 1 x 2 Teeth Tissue Forceps |
• Adson Needle Holder |
• Adson Tissue Forceps |
• Adson-Graefe Tissue Forceps |
• Angular Ear Curette |
• Anterior Chamber Intraocular Lens |
• Antrum Punch (FDA Code: KAW / 874.4420) |
• Atraumatic Hemostatic Forceps |
• Atraumatic Tissue Forceps |
• Baby Ear Syringe |
• Battery-Powered Thermal Cautery Unit (FDA Code: HQP / 886.4115) A thermal cautery unit is an AC-powered or battery-powered device intended for use during ocular surgery to coagulate tissue or arrest bleeding by heat conducted through a wire tip. |
• Bitoric Intraocular Lenses |
• Bivalve Nasal Speculum |
• Blood Collection Sets with Needle Holder |
• Blood Needle Holder Systems |
• Bronchial Cannulae (FDA Code: KCE / 878.4800) A manual surgical instrument for general use is a nonpowered, hand-held, or hand-manipulated device, either reusable or disposable, intended to be used in various general surgical procedures. The device includes the applicator, clip applier, biopsy brush, manual dermabrasion brush, scrub brush, cannula, ligature carrier, chisel, clamp, contractor, curette, cutter, dissector, elevator, skin graft expander, file, forceps, gouge, instrument guide, needle guide, hammer, hemostat, amputation hook, ligature passing and knot-tying instrument, knife, blood lancet, mallet, disposable or reusable aspiration and injection needle, disposable or reusable suturing needle, osteotome, pliers, rasp, retainer, retractor, saw, scalpel blade, scalpel handle, one-piece scalpel, snare, spatula, stapler, disposable or reusable stripper, stylet, suturing apparatus for the stomach and intestine, measuring tape, and calipers. A surgical instrument that has specialized uses in a specific medical specialty is classified in separate regulations in parts 868 through 892. |
• Buck Ear Curettes |
• Cannula Clamp (FDA Code: FKC / 876.5540) A blood access device and accessories is a device intended to provide access to a patient's blood for hemodialysis or other chronic uses. When used in hemodialysis, it is part of an artificial kidney system for the treatment of patients with renal failure or toxemic conditions and provides access to a patient's blood for hemodialysis. The device includes implanted blood access devices, nonimplanted blood access devices, and accessories for both the implanted and nonimplanted blood access devices. |
• Carter Sphere Introducer |
• Castroviejo Curved Ophthalmic Caliper |
• Castroviejo Double Ended Lacrimal Dilator |
• Castroviejo Straight Ophthalmic Caliper |
• Cataract Extractor |
• Cataract Knife |
• Child Ear Curette |
• Cleft Palate Obturator |
• Closed valve Lasik nasal speculum |
• Closed Valve Nasal Speculum |
• Compact Phacoemulsification Systems |
• Contact Lens (FDA Code: HQD / 886.5916) A rigid gas permeable contact lens is a device intended to be worn directly against the cornea of the eye to correct vision conditions. The device is made of various materials, such as cellulose acetate butyrate, polyacrylate-silicone, or silicone elastomers, whose main polymer molecules generally do not absorb or attract water. |
• Contact Lens Case |
• Contact Lens Case, Container (FDA Code: LRX / 886.5928) |
• Contact Lens Eye Drops |
• Contraceptive Tubal Occlusion Device (FDA Code: KNH / 884.5380) A contraceptive tubal occlusion device (TOD) and introducer is a device designed to close a fallopian tube with a mechanical structure, e.g., a band or clip on the outside of the fallopian tube or a plug or valve on the inside. The devices are used to prevent pregnancy. |
• Contract Manufacturing |
• Conventional Nasal Cannula |
• Corneo-Scleral Punch (FDA Code: HNJ / 886.4350) A manual ophthalmic surgical instrument is a nonpowered, handheld device intended to aid or perform ophthalmic surgical procedures. This generic type of device includes the manual corneal burr, ophthalmic caliper, ophthalmic cannula, eyelid clamp, ophthalmic muscle clamp, iris retractor clip, orbital compressor, ophthalmic curette, cystotome, orbital depressor, lachrymal dilator, erisophake, expressor, ophthalmic forcep, ophthalmic hook, sphere introducer, ophthalmic knife, ophthalmic suturing needle, lachrymal probe, trabeculotomy probe, cornea-sclera punch, ophthalmic retractor, ophthalmic ring (Flieringa), lachrymal sac rongeur, ophthalmic scissors, enucleating snare, ophthalmic spatula, ophthalmic specula, ophthalmic spoon, ophthalmic spud, trabeculotome or ophthalmic manual trephine. |
• Coronary Needle Holders |
• Cosmetic Microsurgical Instruments |
• Cosmetic Surgery, Dressing Forceps |