FDA Funds Several Research Projects to Determine Real E-Cigarette Risks
From: HNGN
By Julie S
The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is spending $270 million on e-cigarette-related research that aims to determine the risks associated with smoking, and will be used to draft rules for regulating the device.
The research will include assessing the risk of e-cigarettes by counting the number of puffs volunteers take, combing through Facebook posts to see how people are talking about the device, measuring minors’ level of influence based on promotions of the device, along with 45 other tests.
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Researchers said the final results of these studies won’t be available until 2018. This gives e-cigarette makers a timetable to sell their products with little to no challenge from any regulatory agency.
