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Latest News
CTP Director Authors Blog on FDA’s Plans to Help Reduce Health Disparities
A new post on the FDA Voices blog discusses FDA’s commitment to advancing two tobacco product standards — prohibiting menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and prohibiting all characterizing flavors (including menthol) in cigars.
January 27, 2022
Exposure Modification Orders Issued for VLN® Cigarettes
The authorized products satisfy statutory requirements for modified risk tobacco products, including that they are appropriate to promote the public health and are expected to benefit the health of the population as a whole.
December 23, 2021
Final Guidance: Tobacco Product User Fees: Responses to FAQs
FDA issues a final guidance that helps answer frequently asked questions around tobacco product user fees.
December 8, 2021
FDA Tobacco on Twitter
2022
January
- FDA is Now Accepting Applications for the Position of Director, Center for Tobacco Products (CTP)
- FDA on Track to Take Actions to Address Tobacco-Related Health Disparities
- CTPConnect Newsletter: Quit Smoking in the New Year
2021
December
- FDA Authorizes Marketing of Tobacco Products that Help Reduce Exposure to and Consumption of Nicotine for Smokers Who Use Them
- Final Guidance: Tobacco Product User Fees: Responses to FAQs
- Adjustment of Civil Monetary Penalties for Inflation and the Annual Civil Monetary Penalties Inflation Adjustment for 2021
October
- CTPConnect Newsletter: FDA Permits Marketing of First E-Cigarette Products
- Spotlight on Science Newsletter: NYTS 2021 Released
- FDA Permits Marketing of New Oral Tobacco Products through Premarket Tobacco Product Application Pathway
- FDA Permits Marketing of E-Cigarette Products, Marking First Authorization of Its Kind by the Agency
- FDA In Brief: FDA Warns Firms for Continuing to Market E-cigarette Products After Agency Denied Authorizations
- FDA Finalizes Two Foundational Rules for Companies Seeking to Market New Tobacco Products
September
- Youth E-cigarette Use Remains a Serious Public Health Concern Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
- CTPConnect Newsletter: CTP Director Zeller’s Premarket Tobacco Review Update
- FDA Makes Significant Progress in Science-Based Public Health Application Review, Taking Action on Over 90% of More Than 6.5 Million ‘Deemed’ New Tobacco Products Submitted
August
- FDA Issues Marketing Denials to Over 55,000 Flavored ENDS
- CTPConnect Newsletter: Health Effects of Tobacco Use
- FDA Issues Refuse to File Letter to JD Nova Group LLC
July
- FDA In Brief: FDA Warns Firm With Over 15 Million Products Listed With FDA to Remove Unauthorized E-Cigarette Products from Market
- Spotlight on Science Newsletter
June
- Statement on Withdrawal of the Unified Agenda Entry Pertaining to the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Premium Cigars and Related Request for Information
- Event - Deemed Product Review: A Conversation with the Center for Tobacco Products Office of Science
May
- Q&A with CTP's Director of Office of Regulations
- Update on FDA’s Application Review: PMTA List Posted, Progress Metrics Updated
- Spotlight on Science Newsletter
- CTPConnect Newsletter
April
March
February
- CTPConnect Newsletter
- Perspective: FDA’s Progress on Review of Tobacco Product Applications Submitted by the Sept. 9, 2020 Deadline
January
- Spotlight on Science Newsletter
- FDA Marks Historic Public Health Milestone with Finalization of Two Key Rules for Companies Seeking to Market New Tobacco Products
- FDA Warns Firms to Remove Unauthorized E-liquid Products from Market in First Letters Issued to Manufacturers that Did Not Submit Premarket Applications by Deadline
- CBP, FDA Seize Counterfeit, Unauthorized E-Cigarettes
- FDA In Brief: FDA Continues to Collaborate with Scholastic; Launches Student Magazine and Art Contest Encouraging Middle and High School Students Not to Vape
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- Email Newsletters & Web Statements Archive (2010 - 2016)
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- Public Meeting and Workshop Archive (2009 - 2016)
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