FDA Center for Tobacco Products Director Mitch Zeller has announced he will retire in April 2022. Zeller was appointed to the job in 2013, and was the second CTP director since the tobacco office’s launch in 2009.
Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock said Zeller’s work has been “invaluable and instrumental” to advancing “numerous historic public health milestones in tobacco regulation,” according to the Washington Post, which first reported the story.
Zeller’s signature accomplishment has been presiding over the FDA’s chaotic regulation of the vaping market through the Premarket Tobacco Application (PMTA) pathway. More than five years after the agency gave itself authority over vaping products with the Deeming Rule, only one vaping product has been given the green light to be legally sold to millions of vapers in the U.S.
Jim McDonald – Vaping360.com – 2021-12-09.
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