A wave of new “Extended Producer Responsibility” or “EPR” programs is beginning to impact companies placing packaged products, including tobacco products, on the market in U.S. states, including California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, and Oregon.
The five EPR programs for packaging enacted thus far have different facets. However, at their core
Ahead of the Food and Drug Law Institute’s (FDLI) annual Tobacco and Nicotine Products Regulation and Policy Conference in Washington, DC, on October 23, 2019, Keller and Heckman attorneys Ben Wolf and Kathryn Skaggs presented on FDA’s “Pathways to Market” for new tobacco products during the pre-conference seminar, Introduction to Tobacco and Nicotine Law and
On February 2, 2018, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC (UST), a wholly owned subsidiary of Altria Group, Inc., filed suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), HHS Secretary Alex Azar, and FDA Commission Scott Gottlieb in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
