FDA Takes Action Against Companies Selling Banned Flavors
In the first week of January, the FDA issued its long-awaited guidance on flavored vaping products. The policy, which took effect in February last year, states that companies that fail within 30 days to stop manufacturing, distributing, and selling unauth
In the first week of January, the FDA released the long-awaited guidance on flavored vaping products. This guidance took effect last February. The guidance states: "Companies that do not cease the production, distribution, and sale of unauthorized flavored cartridge-based e-cigarettes (excluding tobacco or menthol) within 30 days may face FDA enforcement actions."
In response, the agency has begun receiving reports about non-compliant companies. As a result, 22 companies, including online retailers and retail stores (such as gas stations and convenience stores), have received warning letters. The recipients of these letters are required to respond within 15 days.
Trump seeks to end FDA's regulation of tobacco products
At the same time, Trump's budget request released last month called for the establishment of a new agency under the Department of Health and Human Services to regulate tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. Before this proposal, lawmakers seemed uninterested in making such a change, but in 2019, Joe Grogan, the head of Trump's Domestic Policy Council, did express that he believed tobacco regulation by the FDA was unnecessary.
"FDA-regulated drugs help people... it regulates devices that help people. Tobacco has no redeeming qualities," Grogan said last November. Meanwhile, the budget request noted that this change would allow the FDA commissioner to "focus on its traditional mission of ensuring the safety of the nation's food and medical supply."
According to this proposal, the commissioner leading the proposed tobacco regulatory agency would be someone, like the FDA commissioner, who must be confirmed by the Senate, "to increase direct accountability and respond more effectively to this critical public health issue."
In contrast, the current person responsible for tobacco regulation is the director of the Center for Tobacco Products. Since this is under the FDA, the director position does not require Senate confirmation.
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