{"id":26185,"date":"2023-03-29T17:39:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=26185"},"modified":"2023-03-29T17:39:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:39:46","slug":"u-s-house-oversight-committee-to-investigate-ctp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/26185","title":{"rendered":"U.S. HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE CTP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x1e56ztr\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"boll9\" data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-1\">&#8220;The U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee will investigate the practices of the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\" data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-2\">Center for Tobacco Products (CTP)<\/span><\/strong><span data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-3\">. Chairman James Comer is conducting the probe of the FDA\u2019s regulation of tobacco and nicotine products through the CTP. The <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-4\">CTP has failed to effectively define and administer its tobacco and nicotine regulatory programs<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-5\">, resulting in industry uncertainty and unsafe products reaching the marketplace, according to a committee press release. In a letter to <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-6\">FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, Comer is requesting documents<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-7\">, communications and a staff-level briefing related to the CTP\u2019s activities to ensure it is performing its regulatory function as intended. <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-8\">\u201cWe have deep concerns that CTP\u2019s decisions have been influenced by political concerns rather than scientific evidence,\u201d wrote Comer.\u201c <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-9\">Comments from FDA staff to RUF, which are no longer available on its website, reflect such concerns.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-9\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6adfa-0-9\">For example, one commenter said, \u2018[i]n cases where reviews are finished and scientific decisions are made, they are also overruled by political agendas and pushed to change decisions.\u2019 Another stated, \u2018scientific disagreement is frowned upon, if not entirely suppressed,\u2019 while a third said leadership was \u2018\u2026 unsupportive of a reviewer\u2019s fundamental duty to provide an unbiased review using the best available science.\u2019 FDA must clearly identify and publicize what scientific criteria are necessary for a product, to include [electronic nicotine-delivery system (ENDS) products] and smokeless products, to be authorized through the PMTA pathway and\u2014where appropriate\u2014the subsequent [modified-risk tobacco product applications (MRTPs)] pathway.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x1e56ztr\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"boll9\" data-offset-key=\"577gj-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"577gj-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"577gj-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x1e56ztr\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"boll9\" data-offset-key=\"cfq-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cfq-0-0\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00\"><strong>ARTLICLE LINK:<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/2023\/03\/29\/house-oversight-committee-to-probe-ctp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Oversight Committee to Probe CTP<\/a><\/div>\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=\"U.S.%20HOUSE%20OVERSIGHT%20COMMITTEE%20TO%20INVESTIGATE%20CTP\";<\/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>&#8220;The U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee will investigate the practices of the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP). 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