{"id":19335,"date":"2019-08-07T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=19335"},"modified":"2019-08-07T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:44:05","slug":"from-the-vta-fight-to-survive-small-vapor-business-the-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/19335","title":{"rendered":"FROM THE VTA &#8211; Fight To Survive: Small Vapor Business &#038; The FDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/55d285d36cf09fd823bb068a0\/images\/c9529f33-086e-4365-8125-7fd520bdb0f9.png\" width=\"191\" height=\"116\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AUGUST 2, 2019<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">VTA Member, Amanda Wheeler of JVAPES E-Liquid and President of the Rocky Mountain Smoke Free Alliance, is taking the lead at a critical time for the vapor industry. She is seeking signatories for a thoughtful letter to the FDA on behalf of small business owners in the vapor industry. But we need your help!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<table class=\"mcnButtonContentContainer aligncenter\" style=\"height: 27px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"178\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnButtonContent\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><a class=\"mcnButton\" title=\"Read the full letter here\" href=\"https:\/\/vaportechnology.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=55d285d36cf09fd823bb068a0&amp;id=6e17512442&amp;e=1271297c21\" target=\"jj4HlA1XkVD6F2OLT4yF-Z7\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full letter here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/55d285d36cf09fd823bb068a0\/images\/516e7563-e98a-4696-80dc-f853d4646a51.png\" width=\"471\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>We are calling on all of our small business owners to follow Amanda\u2019s example and sign onto this letter to FDA Center for Tobacco Products Director, Mitchell Zeller.<\/strong>\u00a0The letter requests a regulatory process that does not kill our industry through an unclear and cost prohibitive PMTA process.<\/p>\n<table class=\"mcnButtonContentContainer aligncenter\" style=\"height: 47px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"269\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnButtonContent\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><a class=\"mcnButton\" title=\"CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME \" href=\"https:\/\/vaportechnology.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=55d285d36cf09fd823bb068a0&amp;id=3d512dcbb2&amp;e=1271297c21\" target=\"vPGv4lryPO0iuKmP7Bf75nG\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We will be working with Amanda, and our members, setting up a meeting with the FDA to discuss the adoption of a regulation process that will encourage the growth of responsible businesses within the vapor industry instead of the current trajectory of unreasonable demands set to quash numerous small businesses. Please complete the form to add your name to the letter and join the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Become a signatory and pass this email along to any industry stakeholders who may want to join our cause. Now more than ever we need to take action. Everyone needs to be off of the sidelines during this critical time for our industry.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for joining the fight!<\/p>\n<p>Tony Abboud<br \/>\nVapor Technology Association<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"FROM%20THE%20VTA%20-%20Fight%20To%20Survive%3A%20Small%20Vapor%20Business%20%26%20The%20FDA\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUGUST 2, 2019 VTA Member, Amanda Wheeler of JVAPES E-Liquid and President of the Rocky Mountain Smoke Free Alliance, is taking the lead at a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent_news","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19336,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335\/revisions\/19336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}