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  • FDA appears to hold off on crackdown on synthetic nicotine products
    https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/08/fda-appears-to-hold-off-on-crackdown-on-synthetic-nicotine-products-despit

    Il ne suffit pas de faire des lois, il faut aussi des forces pour les faire appliquer dans les délais. Des humains pour bosser dessus et empêcher d’autres humains de traîner les pieds pour renforcer les entreprises contre la santé publique.
    Cette affaire en est un bel exemple... malheureusement pas isolé.

    WASHINGTON — Congress gave the Food and Drug Administration a clear directive to crack down on vape companies skirting the agency’s rules. But there are growing signs the agency is not ready to do as instructed.

    Now, advocates are apoplectic.

    This March, Congress acted remarkably swiftly to give the FDA the power to regulate so-called synthetic nicotine products — vaping products, often sold in fruity flavors like ”watermelon berry,” “banana ice,” and “rainbow cloudz,” that were only on the market because of a loophole in the agency’s tobacco regulation. That loophole allowed companies to sell their products so long as they made them using nicotine produced in a lab, rather than extracting it from a tobacco plant.

    Federal data show that youth have increasingly switched to these products because they still provide the fruity flavors that previously popular companies, like Juul, have discontinued. An annual survey conducted by the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that one synthetic vaping brand, Puff Bar, was the most popular e-cigarette among current youth tobacco users.

    When Congress gave the FDA power to regulate these products, it also gave the agency clear deadlines: The law says synthetic tobacco companies had to have submitted so-called premarket applications by May 14, 2022, and that any company that didn’t submit an application by that date would be considered illegal. Congress also said that any product not authorized by the FDA as of July 13 — next Wednesday — would also be considered illegal.

    But an FDA spokesperson told STAT Friday that the agency has not taken action to date against any company selling synthetic nicotine that hasn’t submitted an application.

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