In a press release issued Wednesday after business hours, the FDA announced that more than 200 manufacturers of synthetic nicotine products submitted over a million Premarket Tobacco Applications (PMTAs) before the May 14 deadline.
As of July 14, the agency says it is illegal to market any of those products.
A rider inserted in the federal omnibus spending bill passed by Congress in March granted the FDA new authority over all forms of nicotine, regardless of the source. That language modified the 2009 Tobacco Control Act to include nicotine not derived from tobacco.
The March 2022 law mandated immediate FDA regulatory actions, set out a deadline for PMTA submission for synthetic-based products (May 14), and granted a 60-day grace period (until July 13), during which products could remain on the market without authorization.
Jim McDonald – Vaping360 – 2022-07-14
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