White House scrapped FDA plan to restrict flavored e-cigarettes
Editor’s Note: Cross-posted from OIRA Watch. Regulatory restrictions on e-cigarettes are already triggering a black market, see here.
From: Reuters
BY TONI CLARKE
A White House office deleted language in a recently introduced tobacco regulation that would have removed flavored e-cigarettes from the market until they had been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, an edited version of the document shows.
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In its originally submitted rule, the FDA said it recognized that numerous flavored products would come off the market within 180 days of the rule’s publication “and that this will significantly impact the availability of flavored tobacco products at least in the short term.”
