The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Right to be Smoke-Free Coalition holding that portions of Indiana’s E-Liquid Law are unconstitutional as applied to out-of-state manufacturers
On January 30, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued its decision in Legato Vapors LLC et al. v. David
UPDATE – FDA’s Ingredient Listing Deadline For Deemed Products Extended by Six Months
On December 28, 2016, FDA finalized its Guidance for Industry, “Listing of Ingredients in Tobacco Products” which is available here. In the new guidance FDA states that, “considering that some manufacturers of newly deemed products are not familiar with the forms
UPDATE: On December 5, 2016, FDA finalized its Guidance for Industry, “Health Document Submission Requirements for Tobacco Products” which is available here. As noted above, manufacturers and importers of newly deemed tobacco products (such as e-vapor products) that were on the market on the August 8, 2016 effective date of the Deeming Regulation
UPDATE: On December 9, 2016, FDA issued a revised guidance for industry, “Registration and Product Listing for Owners and Operators of Domestic Tobacco Product Establishments,” extending the December 31, 2016 deadline for registration and product listing for U.S. manufacturers by six months by June 30, 2017. According to FDA, the guidance has been
Azim Chowdhury was interviewed in VB2B’s Winter Edition. Azim discussed current events in the e-vapor industry and what companies need to do in the face of rapid regulatory change.
We are a regulatory law firm specializing in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
On July 25, 2016, Keller and Heckman LLP, on behalf of the Right to be Smoke Free Coalitionand ten national and state e-vapor industry trade associations (the “E-Vapor Coalition”), filed a Motion for Summary Judgement in a lawsuitchallenging parts of the Tobacco Control Act (TCA) and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) recently published “Deeming
On behalf of the Right To Be Smoke Free Coalition and the entire e-vapor industry, yesterday Keller and Heckman LLP filed a Complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging portions of FDA’s Deeming Regulation and the Tobacco Control Act on various constitutional and administrative grounds. The named Plaintiffs in the
On April 19, 2016, the House Appropriations Committee voted to include a bipartisan amendment, sponsored by Rep. Tom Cole (R – OK) and Rep. Sanford Bishop (D – GA), to the 2017 fiscal year Agricultural Appropriations bill that would amend the February 15, 2007 “grandfather date” for currently unregulated tobacco product categories, including nicotine-containing
