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You can help decide the fate of flavored vape products.  Following the recent discussion surrounding Marketing Denial Orders (MDO) for flavored vape products, we’re seeking partners to join an independent study to help your products through PMTA. The FDA is concerned about the balance between the perceived dangers that flavors present to youth and the […]

The vape Industry in the USA is facing a crisis, but one that it can overcome. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued more than 946,000 Marketing Denial Orders (MDO) for flavoured ENDS (electronic nicotine delivery systems) products as a result of a legal limitation which meant that the FDA had to clear […]

Following the most recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) presentation on the progress of Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) review, our Chief Regulatory Officer shares some of the key details along with how we think this will impact vape products in the market. Some of the key details from our Chief Regulatory Officer, Damien Bové, […]

Adact have received clarification on General Enforcement Discretion Related to Sept. 9 Premarket Tobacco Applications from the FDA. We received the following on 29 April 2021. “Per a court’s order, for new deemed tobacco products on the market as of Aug. 8, 2016, submissions of applications for marketing orders were required by Sept. 9, 2020.  […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) displayed the final rule for the Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) in the federal register, but it did not get published on 19 January 2021. A day later on 20 January, a memo from The White House Chief of Staff ordered the withdrawal of any rules that did not publish in the […]

An upcoming ban on the sale of flavoured tobacco products in the US state of California which was due to start on 1 January 2021 has been suspended by court order. Earlier in December California Attorney General Xavier Becerra agreed to suspend the flavour ban until November 2022. The delay is of huge relief to […]

Starting 1 January 2021, the sale of flavoured tobacco products in the US state of California will be banned following a “surge in youth nicotine consumption.” Governor Gavin Newsom signed the flavoured tobacco ban bill, which affects electronic cigarette and vaping products, with the aim of targeting the fruit, chocolate, candy, and dessert flavours lawmakers […]

To better protect children the FDA are checking more and more online stores that sell electronic cigarette and vaping products for their compliance in blocking underage customers. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have recently stepped up their enforcement of the age of buyers, and UK based companies are often finding themselves the targets of these […]

We are proud to announce the successful submission of over 1,000 applications on behalf of 20 major electronic cigarette and vaping brands. Following the FDA’s decision to push back the introduction of the Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) from 12 May to 9 September, the ADACT team in the UK have worked tirelessly to deliver […]

The deadline for the upcoming Pre-Market Tobacco Agreement, which was set to come into force on 12 May 2020, has been extended by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  To give the worldwide e-cigarette and vaping industry some time to breathe during the current crisis, the FDA requested US law […]