{"id":889078,"date":"2026-09-12T07:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889078\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T07:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:08:20","slug":"contact-lenses-recalled-over-bacteria-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889078\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact lenses recalled over bacteria risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contact lenses intended for costume use have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/product-recall-60t\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recalled<\/a> as they could cause eye infections.<\/p>\n<p>Sold by Chinese firm SHEIN, the packaging of the lenses \u201cmay be contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria, the ACCC says.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Contact lenses recalled over bacteria risk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/305177e32e9233fae6fbe4476a0b38720b05f7f61d4a161c01413f2974bacba6.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Contact lenses recalled over bacteria risk\u00a0ACCC<\/p>\n<p>The contact lenses affected are white and if used could cause \u201cirritation or serious eye infection\u201d it says. <\/p>\n<p>An incident has been reported overseas it says.<\/p>\n<p>They were sold from 7 August 2024 and 15 August 2026 and carry the number SKU sb2408056243278800.<\/p>\n<p>They should not be used.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who has bought them can respond to a recall email from SHEIN, or contact the company at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/australia-news\/mailto:aucsteam@shein.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\">aucsteam@shein.com<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contact lenses intended for costume use have been recalled as they could cause eye infections. Sold by Chinese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-889078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}