Is Your Clear Eyes Bottle Recalled? Check the Lot Number

If the bottle in your hand says Clear Eyes, do not decide by the brand name alone. The July 2026 recall applies to one product and one lot: Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief, lot 2552A. A Clear Eyes bottle with a different product name or a different lot number is not the bottle identified in the FDA enforcement record for this recall. [1]

Use the table below as the clean comparison point. Start with the product name and lot number; the NDC, UPC, expiration date, and package size are supporting checks if you still have the carton or can read them on the bottle. [1]

Find the lot number before you decide

The lot number is the part that sorts your bottle. It may be printed near the expiration date, by the barcode, under the dosing directions, or on the outer carton if you still have it. On small over-the-counter eye-drop bottles, that print can be easy to miss, especially after the carton has been thrown away. [2][3]

Put the bottle under bright light. Dry the label if it has been sitting near the sink. Turn it slowly instead of scanning the front only. If the carton is available, check the carton first because the printing is usually larger. If you are helping a parent or spouse by phone, ask them to read the characters out loud one at a time: “two, five, five, two, A.”

Do not treat a partial match as a match. “2552,” “2552B,” “2552A1,” or a smudged code that only looks close should not be rounded into the recalled lot. The recalled lot number is exactly 2552A. If you cannot tell whether the last character is an A, use a magnifier, take a phone photo and zoom in, or compare the same code on the carton.

Use this narrowing order

1. Confirm the product name first. It must say Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief, not just Clear Eyes.
2. Find the lot number. The recalled lot is 2552A.
3. If you can read more identifiers, compare the expiration date, package size, NDC, and UPC against the table.
4. Decide only after the product name and lot number match exactly.

The supporting identifiers are useful because bottles and cartons get separated. A bottle may show the lot and expiration date but not make the UPC easy to see; a carton may show the UPC and NDC more clearly than the bottle. That is fine. The key question remains whether the bottle is Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief and whether the lot is 2552A.

If you are checking several eye-drop products at once, step out to the general eye-drop recall label routine after you finish this Clear Eyes comparison. The point is not to make every eye-drop bottle in the cabinet look suspicious; it is to sort this one recall.

If your bottle does not match lot 2552A

If the product name is different, or the product is Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief but the lot number is not 2552A, your bottle is not the one identified in this FDA recall record. You do not need to follow the stop-use path for this Clear Eyes recall just because the brand name appears in a headline.

If you remain unsure because the label is torn, smeared, or too small to read, compare what you can against the FDA enforcement record rather than relying on a retailer roundup. FDA enforcement reports may include recalls that do not have a separate press release, and they are the better place to confirm the official recall identifiers. [2]

Retailer information can also be incomplete or corrected after publication. NBC News noted in an Aug. 24, 2026 correction that the recalled Clear Eyes lot was not sold by CVS, which is a useful reminder not to treat any single store list as the final test for the bottle in your hand. [4]

If your bottle matches exactly

If the bottle is Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief and the lot number is 2552A, stop using it. Keep the bottle and carton if you have them, because the lot number, UPC, NDC, and expiration date may be needed for a refund, replacement, or recall follow-up. Do not empty the bottle into the sink and throw away the packaging before you have the identifying information.

• Set the bottle aside where it will not be used by mistake.
• Save photos of the front label, lot number, expiration date, UPC, and carton if available.
• Use a different eye-drop product only if it is appropriate for you and not part of another recall.
• Watch for new or worsening eye symptoms after use, and contact a clinician if you are concerned.
• Report suspected adverse events through FDA MedWatch when appropriate.

This is a label-check guide, not medical advice. If the matching bottle was used by someone with eye pain, vision changes, recent eye surgery, a weakened immune system, or symptoms that are getting worse, the practical next step is clinical help rather than more label comparison.

Adult children sorting a parent’s medicine cabinet may also want the caregiver refund and replacement path, especially if more than one person in the home uses the same bottle or the carton is missing.

What “Class II” and “lack of assurance of sterility” mean here

The FDA’s Class II recall category means that use of or exposure to a product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, or that the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote. [5]

For this Clear Eyes recall, the reason reported was “lack of assurance of sterility.” That wording matters. It is not the same as saying the product was confirmed contaminated, and coverage of the recall reported no adverse events as of the reporting date. [6]

Sterility still deserves attention because eye drops go directly onto the eye, and the FDA warns consumers to be careful with eye-drop products, storage, and contamination risks. [7] If you want the longer explanation without turning this Clear Eyes check into a general recall article, use the eye-drop sterility explainer for older adults.

One last comparison before you move on

For this recall, the authoritative comparison is the FDA enforcement record: Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief, lot 2552A, 0.5 fl oz / 15 mL, expiration 9/30/2027, NDC 67172-999-01, UPC 6 78112 65920 3, recall number D-0766-2026. If your bottle does not match that product and lot, do not let the Clear Eyes brand name do more work than it should. [1]

If you are checking multiple July 2026 eye-drop products, finish this bottle first, then move one product at a time. Readers holding a Rohto bottle can use the separate Rohto recall article; do not mix those lot numbers into the Clear Eyes check.

References

1. FDA Enforcement Report record for Event 99532 — FDA
2. Drug Recall: What to Do — AARP
3. Eye Drop Safety — My Eye Consultants
4. Eye drops sold nationwide recalled over possible contamination, FDA reports — NBC News
5. Drug Recalls — FDA
6. FDA recall eye drop that relieves ocular itch for potential contamination — Ophthalmology Times
7. What You Should Know about Eye Drops — FDA