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FDA Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) Pathway

Under FDA’s premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) pathway, manufacturers or importers of tobacco products must demonstrate to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the marketing of a new tobacco product would be appropriate for the protection of the public health (APPH). See Section 910(c)(2)(A) of the

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On March 15, President Joe Biden signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through September. The bill, as passed, includes a provision amending the definition of “tobacco product” in Section 201(rr) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”) as “any product made or derived from tobacco, or containing

In case you couldn’t attend our recently held “E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium” we recorded it—so you can view it at your leisure. Register today and receive full access to the recorded sessions, along with seminar presentations and other materials.

Keller and Heckman is pleased to provide on-demand access to our two-day comprehensive seminar focused

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Keller and Heckman Associate Neelam Gill will be a panelist at the Food and Drug Law Institute’s (FDLI) Enforcement, Litigation, and Compliance Conference, to be held virtually on December 9 – 10, 2021. Neelam will be participating in the panel on “Preparing for Tobacco Product Standards and cGMPs,” which will focus on pending Tobacco Product

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Two months after the September 9, 2021 PMTA enforcement discretion deadline, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken action on well over 90% of timely submitted Premarket Tobacco Product Applications (PMTAs), and has issued over 323 marketing denial orders (MDOs) for more than
1.2 million non-tobacco and non-menthol flavored Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems

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Keller and Heckman Partner Azim Chowdhury and Associate Neelam Gill published an article for the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) titled, “Will FDA Extend Its Proposed Ban on Menthol Cigarettes and Characterizing Flavors in Cigars to Flavored ENDS Products?” The article discusses FDA’s recent announcement to initiate a rulemaking to ban menthol cigarettes, as

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The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs recently published the Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. This year’s Department of Health and Human Services’ agenda addresses 8 topics directly related to tobacco and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), summarized below:

Final Rule Stage

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released an updated module, “Tobacco Registration and Listing Module Next Generation (TRLM NG)” to its FDA Unified Registration and Listing (FURLS) Tobacco Registration and Listing Module (TRLM) (FURLS TRLM). TRLM NG was developed to better assist industry stakeholders submitting information and to improve system usability.

Reposted from Keller and Heckman’s Blog, The Daily Intake

  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently issued a warning letter to Smart Toothpicks LLC, of Tempe, Arizona, for several violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), as amended by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Smart Toothpicks sells nicotine-infused

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Keller and Heckman’s 4th annual E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium is just around the corner. Take advantage of the early bird discount and register today for the most comprehensive 2-day seminar focused on legal and regulatory issues critical to e-vapor, tobacco and CBD industries. Topics that will be covered include:

  • Status of the Industry: What