A loophole that vaping companies have used to circumvent regulators and keep their products on shelves closed this week, enabling the FDA to go after myriad products being marketed illegally and in a variety of flavors.
In order to avoid FDA oversight, companies have been making synthetic nicotine in the lab -- and not derived from tobacco and thus within the agency's purview. But the national spending bill enacted March 15"makes clear that FDA can regulate tobacco products containing nicotine from any source," the agency said Wednesday, the day before the law finally took effect.
Last week, FDA leaders authored an opinion in The Hill, describing how vaping companies would switch up their nicotine source after being issued warnings by the FDA. Now those companies"will be held to the same public health standards we've worked so hard to implement for other tobacco products," they wrote. Among the products newly facing FDA oversight is a disposable brand known as Puff Bar, which comes in a variety of flavors and was the most popular among students in 2021.
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