{"id":243210,"date":"2010-01-28T11:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001324"},"modified":"2010-01-28T12:29:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T17:29:06","slug":"this-contact-lens-solution-bottle-is-a-little-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/243210","title":{"rendered":"This Contact Lens Solution Bottle Is A Little Misleading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/IMG_0138(2)-thumb-155x105-36427.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/IMG_0138-thumb-350x627-36426.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Noah found a bottle of contact lens solution that proclaimed on its package that it&#8217;s small enough to comply with the TSA&#8217;s liquid rules. This would be great if the bottle were small enough to comply with the TSA&#8217;s liquid rules.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m a lifelong user of Opti-Free contact solution, mostly because it was what my optometrist gave me to use all those years ago, and I was thrilled to see they had a travel size that was TSA compliant. That was until I saw it was a 4oz container which is of course not TSA compliant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, the maximum size allowed on airplanes is 100 mL, or 3.4 ounces. Nice try, Opti-Free. <strong>Update: <\/strong>Yes, as some commenters have noted, you can bring more contact lens solution on a plane if it&#8217;s declared as a medical product and chemically tested. That&#8217;s why this product is misleading&#8211;a contact lens wearer shopping for a travel-size bottle would be misled into buying it in order to save him- or herself the hassle of declaring the liquid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/311\/index.shtm\">Make Your Trip Better Using 3-1-1<\/a> [TSA]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0138.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/28\/IMG_0138.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"627\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah found a bottle of contact lens solution that proclaimed on its package that it&#8217;s small enough to comply with the TSA&#8217;s liquid rules. This would be great if the bottle were small enough to comply with the TSA&#8217;s liquid rules. He writes: I&#8217;m a lifelong user of Opti-Free contact solution, mostly because it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}