ARTICLE: FDA misses deadline for deciding which e-cigarette products should be removed from the market

Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, which sued the FDA to create the Sept. 9 deadline, applauded that progress but insisted it was not enough.

“While FDA has said it has ruled on 93% of the applications, it hasn’t ruled on the products that have driven the youth e-cigarette epidemic. Every day those products remain on the market, our kids remain in jeopardy,” said Myers. “It is very frustrating that this problem has been allowed to fester for more than a decade. There needs to be a resolution and a resolution quickly.”

Myers added that if the FDA does not decide on the major applications soon, his group will “have no choice but to go back to the court to have the court enforce its order requiring FDA to begin to remove any product not authorized.”

Myers declined to say when the group would go back to court but added that “this can’t be a delay of months, it has to be resolved promptly or else we have to ask a court to intervene.”

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