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.

  1. What are the different services Keller Heckman offers the business owners?

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

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With the passage of the Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act (S. 142) by both houses of Congress, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) will likely soon get new authority to require child-resistant (CR) packaging (“special packaging”) over certain packages of nicotine-containing “e-liquid.”  Assuming the President signs the bill, as expected, covered products…