The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) believes most e-cigarette manufacturers will need to conduct fresh scientific research in order to obtain authorisation for their products under the newly-published deeming regulations – but not necessarily...
Compliance with the new U.S. deeming regulations could be eased by the sharing of information among manufacturers and other stakeholders, says the Food and Drug Administration...
Differences between the FDA’s final deeming regulations and its 2014 draft version reveal many changes in areas ranging from retailing and health warnings to compliance timetables and product...
The new deeming regulations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will limit the regulatory authority of states and localities in a wide range of areas, with e-cigarette labelling proving to be one of...
The era of vape stores producing their own e-liquids is likely to come to an end after the introduction of the deeming regulations in the U.S., the agency responsible for them predicts. The Food and...
While the U.S. deeming regulations and the EU’s TPD will come into effect almost simultaneously this summer, bringing some regulatory consistency and clarity to the world’s largest e-cigarette markets, their approaches could hardly be more...
Several members of Congress welcomed what they view as a long-overdue rule by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate e-cigarettes, but the initial responses also provided another opportunity for Democrats and Republicans...
Initial industry reaction broke down largely along expected lines - with many of the usual faces popping in with early assessments. Further reaction is expected as more people get to grips with the massive U.S....
Striving for science-based policy-making in the deeming regulations, the FDA faced a tough task in attempting to corral the rapidly-developing and often contradictory data on e-cigarettes at the same time as it was dealing with...
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today published its long-awaited deeming rule that bring e-cigarettes under federal regulation for the first...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has ruled against the British e-cigarette company Totally Wicked in its quest to overturn article 20 of the EU Tobacco Products Directive...
The British government has itemised the costs it expects e-cig firms to face after its transposition of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) comes into full force next...
The British e-cigarette industry’s advertising spend will drop by 90% after May’s arrival of new restrictions based on the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), according to a government...
Australia’s pharmaceuticals regulator has been ordered to consider an application from Nicovations to register its Voke nicotine inhalator as an over-the-counter...
The future of retail channels in the Spanish e-cigarette market may hang in the balance as the government approaches a final decision on whether to prohibit online sales, according to a new ECigIntelligence...
New numbers on U.S. youth tobacco use from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have caused consternation on both sides of the e-cigarette debate, focused on whether growing numbers of young vapers represent...
The U.S. e-cigarette industry is this week one step closer to avoiding the expensive process currently proposed for federal approval of existing products, following a Congressional committee...
Harm reduction vs the precautionary principle is an issue which has split public-health experts since the HIV epidemic of the 1980s, and still underlies debates over e-cigarette regulation such as the EU Tobacco Products Directive...
A new study has shown some relation between e-cigarette point-of-sale (POS) advertising and youth uptake of e-cigs. But the authors urge people to not jump to conclusions because of the results....
Differing views of nicotine in Britain and the U.S. may underlie a sharp contrast in official attitudes toward e-cigarettes, according to a group of public-health...
In the past year or so, scientists have conducted several systematic reviews that aim to analyse research evidence in order to find whether e-cigs help people quit smoking. The issue addressed by studies like these...
While most of the European e-cigarette industry’s attention is focused on the imminent regulatory upheaval brought about by the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), another set of compliance requirements are also growing in number –...
With only weeks to go before the measures of the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) start to come into legal effect, ECigIntelligence’s European regulatory analysts have identified the major tasks facing e-cigarette...
E-cigarette regulation is expected in the near future in both Malaysia and Hong Kong, while other southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and Vietnam face continuing battles with illegal...
A partial ban on the public use of e-cigarettes in Wales has fallen through. But this was not due to a vaper grassroots movement. Instead, it was down to bitterness over a petty insult by...
Never say that medics don’t have a sense of humour, albeit often a black one. A case report by clinicians in Denmark is titled “A cancer that went up in smoke: pulmonary reaction to e-cigarettes...
Australia’s already stringent rules against e-cigarettes look set to get even tighter in some parts of the country, although there are tentative signs that the national regulatory framework could come under...
An e-liquid manufacturer has ended a distribution agreement with a tobacco firm after pressure from customers. But the tobacco firm still maintains a 50% equity stake in the company....
E-cigarettes will likely soon become legally equal to combustible products in California, following the state legislature’s approval of a raft of tobacco measures which also raise the smoking – and vaping – age to...