Originally Posted by
slicklasers
I know of one time that the CDRH did something. A friend of mine reported an illegal laser operator that did audience scanning weekly at a Seattle night club. The CDRH told him that they did not have any travel budget for enforcement but would contact the Seattle Fire Marshal and have him check it out, as well as the CDRH sending letters to the nightclub telling them that they needed to cease having him use his lasers.
The club quit using him for lasers and went with someone that I had built a laser for, but unfortunately the club wanted 2 lasers and so the guy I built a projector for decided to go and buy a chines projector because it was cheap and he had a variance for the other projector for years without ever being checked, so he said, "why spend the extra money, they never checked me, and the club is happy cause I have a variance."
As an FYI, nothing ever happened to the guy with the illegal projectors, and his ENTIRE INFO, First and last name, address, email, website, EVERYTHING WAS GIVEN TO THE CDRH BUT THEY DIDNT DO ANYTHING TO THE ILLEGAL LASER OPERATOR. I'm afraid its going to take a governors daughter being blinded by lasers for them to do anything about it, just like with mining or anything else, no checks until there is SERIOUS ISSUE, then everyone will have a microscope up their ass…