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Save the date! Keller and Heckman’s Annual E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium is back in person in 2023. Please join us on February 15-16, 2023, for a two-day comprehensive seminar focused on legal and regulatory issues critical to e-vapor, tobacco, and CBD industries.

This year’s program will feature new, timely topics specifically designed to help

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Since it became effective in 2016, the cigar industry has mounted several challenges to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “Deeming Rule,” which extended the Agency’s tobacco product authority beyond cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, smokeless tobacco, and roll-your-own tobacco, to all products that meet the “tobacco product” definition in the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act,

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On June 23, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued marketing denial orders (MDOs)[1] to Juul Labs Inc. for all of the company’s JUUL electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products currently marketed in the United States. After review, FDA determined that Juul’s Premarket Tobacco Product Applications (PMTAs), submitted more than two years

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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

Please be sure to join us for a two-day comprehensive seminar focused on legal and regulatory issues critical to e-vapor, tobacco, and CBD industries following the aftermath of FDA’s decisions on millions of premarket applications. Topics that will be covered include PMTA marketing denial order (MDO) challenges, new requirements for PMTAs and Substantial Equivalence reports,

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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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  • On January 15, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning lettersto ten companies that sell electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products, including e-liquids.  FDA’s letters warned that any new tobacco product not in compliance with the premarket authorization requirements of the Federal

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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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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