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0705 REVIEW DENIED By establishing standards for intraocular lenses, the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act pre-empts state law and, therefore, requires dismissal of plaintiff's products liability causes of action for negligence and strict liability in tort, but does not require dismissal of causes of action for negligence per se, misrepresentation, breach of express warranty, or breach of implied warranty of fitness for the buyer's particular purpose.CitationEVRAETS v INTERMEDICS (Intraocular Lens) 29 CA4 779 [See: 21 USC 360 etseq; Cipollone v Liggett 112 SCt 2608; Erie v Tompkins 304 US 64; Slater v Optical 961 F2 1330]
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