FDA Now Regulates E-Cigarettes and Vaporizers
May 24, 2018
Categories: FDA updates
FDA Now Regulates E-Cigarettes and Vaporizers
FDA’s Deeming Regulations for E-Cigarettes, Cigars, and All Other Tobacco Products.
Mitch Zeller, Director of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products posted in his blog that
- It will become illegal nationwide to sell cigars, hookah tobacco, and e-cigarettes to anyone under age 18 and retailers will need to check photo ID of anyone under age 27.
- Retailers will not be allowed to give away free samples of newly deemed tobacco products.
- Retailers will not be allowed to sell cigars, hookah tobacco, and e-cigarettes in a vending machine where anyone under age 18 has access at any time.
Nicopure Labs, LLC, a leading American manufacturer of e-liquids, announced May 8, 2018, they have filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Washington, D.C., challenging the new “deeming” rule.
Jason Del Giudice, the company’s chief technology officer and co-founder, stated:
“FDA’s rule does not protect the consumer from low quality products; instead, it places a disproportionate and unjustified regulatory burden on compliant companies such as ourselves, who are determined to drive the industry to the highest standards of quality and innovation.”