Tobacco

FDA is extending by 15 days the comment period for its proposal that would effectively remove flavored e-cigarettes from the market and move up the deadline by which manufacturers of flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) products must submit premarket applications, the agency announced Monday (April 8).

During a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Wednesday (April 3), Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL) previewed a bill he plans to release this week that will raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21 and put in place certain requirements and restrictions for online tobacco product purchases.

The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids welcomed an announcement by outgoing FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb that the agency will expand its youth e-cigarette prevention campaign beyond social media and high school bathrooms and onto television screens.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said he will testify before Congress in support of FDA’s 2020 budget on April 3, before leaving the agency two days later.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced new policy proposals that he expects will effectively ban some flavored e-cigarettes and cigars and restrict others from being used by minors.

FDA experts applauded President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2020 budget request, which includes large increases for FDA, including a net $362 million boost for the agency’s taxpayer-paid budget authority, a $120 million increase for its user fee programs and $161 for new user fee programs.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s unexpected resignation leaves myriad agency policy and regulatory plans, many of which Gottlieb identified as key priorities, hanging in the balance.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Wednesday (Feb. 27) told House appropriators he would support increasing the federal minimum age for purchasing tobacco to 21, as doing so could help FDA with the immediate problem of addressing youth use of e-cigarettes.

FDA on Thursday (Feb. 7) announced it is barring a Walgreens store in Miami and a Circle K store in Charleston, SC, from selling tobacco products for 30 days due to repeated violations of sales and distribution restrictions, including selling cigars and menthol cigarettes to minors.