The FDA’s Big (?) Announcement on Nicotine Regulation
From: Yale Notice & Comment | A Blog from the Yale Journal on Regulation and the ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
by Micah Berman
On Friday, the FDA made an unexpected announcement that it was unveiling a “comprehensive regulatory plan” to reduce tobacco-related disease and death. The announcement was surprising in part because the Trump Administration had recently unveiled its Unified Regulatory Agenda, which emphasized deregulation and did not identify any significant planned tobacco-related action.
So what does this plan entail? Announced by Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the new FDA Commissioner, and Mitch Zeller, Director of the FDA Center for Tobacco Products, the FDA’s new approach to tobacco regulation contains three elements, which I’ll address in turn:
