ºÚÁÏÉçÇøjoined national retail associations Oct. 14 in urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to publish a list of ENDS products for which it has issued marketing denial orders (MDOs). The letter was sent in response to FDA’s Oct. 12 announcement that the Agency has authorized the marketing of three electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products. FDA has not released a detailed list of MDOs it has issued and without a publicly available list, retailers – including fuel marketers with convenience stores – do not know which products are illegal for them to sell.
10-15-2021The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Jan. 2 published final guidance banning most flavored cartridge-based e-cigarettes, except for tobacco and menthol flavors. The guidance permits the sale of e-liquid flavors used in open vaping systems and in disposable, single-use vape products.
01-06-2020Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar announced on September 11 that Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will finalize a compliance policy that would effectively ban all flavored e-cigarettes.
09-12-2019The Food and Drug Administration issued a proposal March 13 to restrict sales of flavored e-cigarettes and require that retailers establish adult-only areas or take other steps to limit access to flavored e-cigarettes to anyone under age 18. The move marks the latest in a string of aggressive steps targeting convenience stores and other smaller format retail establishments that sell tobacco and e-cigarette products, including truckstops, in recent weeks.
03-14-2019The Food and Drug Administration has put the makers of electronic cigarettes on notice that they have sixty days to demonstrate that they can keep their devices away from minors, warning that failure to do so could resulting in flavored electronic cigarette products being removed from the market. The FDA also announced that it was sending letters to more than one thousand retailers, including convenience stores and fuel retailers — along with issuing fines for selling e-cigarettes to minors.
09-14-2018In late March, Congress passed and President Trump signed a massive $1.3 trillion spending bill. The 2,232-page piece of legislation contained a plethora of policy changes that are important to […]
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