FDA’s new standards could be too costly and too late for smaller manufacturers

Fears have been raised that new product standards proposed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to protect consumer health may be costly to implement and overly burdensome for smaller companies.

The FDA has proposed a series of new requirements that would apply controls to product design and development, establish manufacturing specifications, prevent contamination and prohibit the manufacture or distribution of products that do not meet specifications. If approved, the proposals could have an outsized impact on vaping manufacturers.