The DTI, through the Consumer Protection Group (CPG), said it met with representatives from various e-commerce platforms in the country to address the proliferation of prohibited vaporized nicotine and non-nicotine products being sold online.
The Department of Trade and Industry , through the Consumer Protection Group , said it met with representatives from various e-commerce platforms in the country to address the proliferation of prohibited vaporized nicotine and non-nicotine products being sold online.
The trade official added that failure to comply with the requirements set forth in relevant issuances shall “constrain” the DTI to undertake all necessary and available legal actions against these business entities. DTI said these platforms expressed their commitment in working together with them. With this, DTI noted, platforms that failed or refused to send representatives are “deemed to have been served with notice and cannot claim ignorance of the procedure implemented by DTI.”
For product registration, DTI said only Bureau of Philippine Standards-registered and certified Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products, their devices, and Novel Tobacco Products with the applicable graphic and textual health warnings shall be sold to the general public by June 2024.
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