SAN DIEGO, March 4, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TearLab Corporation (Nasdaq:TEAR) (TSX:TLB) (“TearLab” or the “Company”) announced today that it is in receipt of a communication from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) indicating that the data submitted by the Company was not sufficient to gain approval of its CLIA Waiver categorization application for the TearLab™ Osmolarity System.