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The US FDA has written to 12 well-known convenience store chains – including Walmart, Kroger, and Family Dollar – accusing them of selling tobacco products to minors and ordering them to stop
Outgoing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Scott Gottlieb has linked e-cigarettes with a “potential emerging safety issue” after reports linking vaping with seizures, particularly among young people
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) budget for financial year 2020 has been set at $747m, a significant increase on this year’s figure of $611m
The US FDA has issued a proposed rule to establish requirements for the content and format of substantial equivalence (SE) reports for tobacco products
The US FDA has issued guidance to help vape shops that sell newly deemed products navigate the agency’s enforcement of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C) and its specific requirements
With an interim commissioner set to take over, the US FDA remains highly focused on the e-cigarette industry – while the industry itself is no doubt watching developments at the FDA just as closely
Pressure on the US vapour industry has increased yet again. Local legislators in San Francisco are attempting to ban e-cig sales entirely, while the FDA commissioner is pondering more action against pods
As much as 90% of the US e-cigarette market could be forced out of business by the FDA’s restrictions on flavours in e-liquids, according to an industry insider
The US FDA has spelled out details of its planned crackdown on flavoured e-cigarettes, including retail restrictions and an earlier PMTA deadline for most flavoured products
The next head of the US FDA has been named. Norman “Ned” Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute, will take over when Scott Gottlieb steps down next month – but only as acting commissioner
Outgoing US FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s $6.1bn funding request for fiscal year 2020 includes for the first time an element aimed specifically at the development of e-cigarette regulation
For once, Democrats and Republicans are in agreement: President Donald Trump was right to hire Scott Gottlieb to lead the US FDA. Politicians and policymakers reacted to Gottlieb’s resignation announcement on 5th March
The news that Scott Gottlieb would be stepping down as FDA commissioner has elicited a predictably mixed response from those involved in US public health, tobacco control and the vaping industry
Almost all news coverage of Scott Gottlieb’s shock resignation as FDA commissioner depicts him as the enemy of e-cigs and speaks of his “unfinished fight against vaping” – but it wasn’t always that way
Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and vocal critic of e-cigarettes, has resigned and will leave office in about a month; no successor has been named
FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb has announced new action against retailers selling tobacco products to minors and e-cig manufacturers who fail to comply with labelling and advertising regulations
FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb was peppered with questions about vaping during a House appropriations subcommittee hearing on the status of operations at the FDA
The US vaping industry is waiting for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to offer guidance on how it plans to tackle e-cigarette usage by children. It may not like it when it comes
A science committee at the FDA has approved a reduced-risk claim for snuff, a decision which may raise hopes that the agency is willing to accept some tobacco products as safer than others
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking no tobacco sale orders (NTSO) against Walgreens and Circle K for selling combustibles and cigars to minors
The entire US e-cigarette industry could be wrecked by the country’s youth vaping “epidemic”, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Scott Gottlieb has warned
US FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb issued a statement in November outlining the agency’s new policy to prevent youth accessing flavoured tobacco products – but what did it really mean, and what will it add up to in practice?
In this latest report on American regulations, ECigIntelligence highlights the fact that all electronic vaping devices will have to comply with FDA label requirements from August 2018
There could be some relief for manufacturers of “tobacco related” products for the US market who have been restricted by the complicated legal process of obtaining authorisation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the form of a premarket tobacco product application (PMTA).
BAT has chosen to seek market authorisation in the US for its heat-not-burn product Glo on the basis of its “substantial equivalence” to a previous product, Eclipse – but what are the pitfalls and the advantages in this approach?
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