Re: Lens Cleaners from Aldi Destroy Specs


"Peter Parry" <peter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:39:36 -0000, "Bob Ferguson"
<robert.ferguson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Under the various Sale of Goods Act legislation, product sold must be fit
for the purpose for which they are sold.

Nope, unless the OP specifically asked for them to be fit for cleaning
_his_ glasses and Aldi confirmed they were then they must be fit for
all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly
supplied. If they clean the majority of glasses without problem, and
if the ingredients used are known to be safe on all common optical
plastics and coatings (which they are) then they are "fit for
purpose".

If the OP had a particularly idiosyncratic pair of glasses which were
affected by common lens cleaning materials then any damage is his
problem.


I would think that unlikely. In any even in the absence of a statement to
the contrary, the lens cleaner is sold as a universal cleaner and must do
precisely that.

You bought spectacle lens
cleaners. Unless the box contained a warning that they were unsuitable
for
the lenses in your spectacles, then you have proof conclusive that the
cleaners were unfit for the purpose for which they were sold.

An imaginative, but futile approach. The OP would have to show how
the damage occurred and that it was indeed caused by the lens cleaner
claimed and not some other solvent at some other time. As the
Isopropanol/water mix is universally used by many manufacturers
without harm to plastics (Isopropanol alone is sold as a "safety
solvent" as it affects so few plastics) then proving the lens cleaner
caused the damage isn't going to be easy.

Lens cleaners haven't used isoproyl alcohol for some years now but not
because of any issue with particular lenses, but because of toxicity and
flammability. It also falls under the COSH legislation.

It would only be necessary for the OP to insist that he has not used any
nother lens cleaner. He only has to prove the point on the balance of
probabilities.


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