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Date:10/28/2008

ecember 29, 2007, the first day of its 2008 fiscal year. Prior to the acquisition, the Company reported its 50% ownership interest in STAAR Japan as an equity investment and did not incorporate STAAR Japan's financial data in the Company's financial statements. As a result, the Company's financial results in 2008 have been significantly affected by both non- recurring charges resulting from the accounting treatment of the transaction and by the consolidation of the results of STAAR Japan from the first quarter of 2008 forward. STAAR's management believes that it is important for investors to be able to identify the trends in its core business, including expense reduction, revenue enhancement and gross profit improvement, and that these trends can be discerned only by a comparison of 2007 financial data with non-GAAP 2008 data that excludes the newly added results from STAAR Japan. Since acquisition of the remaining interests in STAAR Japan, the Company's management has used this non-GAAP information internally to measure its progress compared to 2007 in achieving positive cash flow and returning to profitability. The Company's management currently believes that this information will enhance investors' overall understanding of its core performance when financial statements include comparisons to periods preceding the STAAR Japan acquisition. Going forward, the Company must achieve positive cash flow and profitability as a consolidated enterprise with STAAR Japan, and accordingly the Company cautions investors to consider both the GAAP financial statements as well as the non-GAAP financial information.

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