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Azim Chowdhury and Adam Susser will participate in the FDLI Tobacco Products and Regulation and Policy Conference, which will take place October 26-27, 2017 in Washington, DC.

This KH sponsored event will bring together public health advocates, researchers, manufacturers, lawyers, consumer interests, entrepreneurs, governmental agencies and others to effectively regulate the broad spectrum of tobacco

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Just five days before the September 30, 2017 registration deadline for U.S. manufacturing establishments, on Tuesday, September 26, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, tweeted that due to “website connectivity problems” with the FDA Unified Registration and Listing System (FURLS), FDA would be “implementing a short term extension

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On Friday July 28, 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its new “comprehensive regulatory plan to shift trajectory of tobacco-related disease, death” that refocuses the Agency’s implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA) and the Deeming Rule. FDA’s new strategy appears to be moving away from its “one-size-fits-all”

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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

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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