From: Vaping360
By Jim McDonald
On July 28, when FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced a four-year delay for the final deadline to submit premarket tobacco applications (PMTA’s) for vapor products (and other newly deemed “tobacco” products), it created some confusion among vapers and vape vendors.
From: CNBC
The Food and Drug Administration has provided options for companies to offer safer alternatives to cigarettes, so people can still enjoy “satisfying levels of nicotine” without the risks of tobacco smoke, the agency’s commissioner told CNBC on Thursday.
From: The Washington Post
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The Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide in the next two months whether to allow IQOS into the U.S. market. And that has triggered heated debate and worries among health experts about whether IQOS will help or hurt public health in this country.
Among their most pressing concerns: whether the new device will lower tobacco-related deaths, or if it is just substituting one harmful product for another.
From: The Mercury News
By Taylor Cromwell and Justin Mattingly | Bloomberg News
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The FDA’s initiative may upend the $130 billion American tobacco industry. It’s also likely to set off a ferocious lobbying and legal war in Washington, and push the cigarette industry to develop products that rely less on burning carcinogenic tobacco and more on delivering doses of nicotine through cleaner vapor. Smoking-related illnesses cost $300 billion a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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.
