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Reuters Exclusive: Valeant considers selling contact lens maker Paragon – sources

The FTC has been investigating Valeant for potentially cornering a portion of the lens market.

Valeant chief executive Michael Pearson

Valeant Pharmaceuticals is reaching out to potential buyers for its specialty contact lens manufacturing division, Paragon Vision Sciences, amid scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission, according to two people familiar with the matter.

A sale of Paragon, which Valeant’s Bausch & Lomb unit purchased earlier this year for an undisclosed sum, would deal a blow to the specialty pharmaceutical company’s attempt to consolidate the market for gas permeable contact lenses, a type of rigid lens popular among people with keratoconus, a thinning disorder of the cornea, among other eye diseases.

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The FTC has been investigating Valeant for potentially cornering a portion of the lens market…

Read the full story at Reuters,  BY CARL O’DONNELL

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