FDA Expands Regulatory Authority to All Tobacco Products, Including E-Cigarettes

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Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg May 10, 2016

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a final rule expanding its regulatory authority to all tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes and items that may be developed in the future. The FDA states that this rule subjects all importers, manufacturers and retailers of newly-regulated tobacco products to any applicable provisions, including registering manufacturing establishments, providing product listings to the FDA, reporting ingredients and harmful and potentially harmful constituents, requiring FDA premarket review and authorization of new tobacco products, placing health warnings on product packages and advertisements, and not selling modified risk tobacco products unless authorized by the FDA.

Covered Items. The FDA already regulates cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco and smokeless tobacco. The new rule brings all tobacco products under FDA oversight, including dissolvables not already regulated by the FDA, gels, waterpipe tobacco, electronic nicotine delivery systems (including e-cigarettes, e-hookah, e-cigars, vape pens, advanced refillable personal vaporizers and electronic pipes), cigars and pipe tobacco.

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