How eyeronic (sorry) — instead of relieving irritation, these eye drops may actually cause even more harm after usage. Some counterfeit Eye Mo Eye Drops have been circulating around stores in Singapore, the Health Science Authority (HSA) are rushing to pull them down before everyone goes blind.
In the first case of counterfeit eye drops being sold by shops here, HSA had been alerted to the knock-off products fraudulently labelled as 'EYE MO Regular' and 'EYE MO Moist', both of which come in 7.5ml. According to them, the eye drops were found to be of poor quality with bacterial contamination — definitely not something you'd want to drip on your cornea.
Investigations conducted found that they were being sold at convenience stores in Bishan and Chai Chee. Some pointers on how to spot if they're fake: