The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its Unified Regulatory Agenda on two areas that are of interest to premium cigar enthusiasts: if/how premium cigars should be regulated and if/how flavored tobacco products should be regulated. The Unified Regulatory Agenda is published twice a year and provides a status of upcoming regulations. While […]
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb and Mitch Zeller, Director of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products published a joint article and announced several new initiatives the agency will pursue. One of the paramount ones surrounded Premarket Approval rules. Premarket Approval rules have been something of a black hole in terms of […]
The group of Texas Cigar Companies who have been challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over warning label requirements have filed an appeal on a recent decision by Judge Kimberly Priest Johnson to transfer the case to the U.S District Court in the District of Columbia. The Texas motion was filed on the same […]
Cigar Rights of America Executive Director Glynn Loope issued a statement on the ruling by Judge Amit P. Mehta granting a Motion for an Injunction Pending Appeal delaying the enforcement of the implementation of warning label requirements by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The injunction stopped the FDA’s plans to enforce warning label […]
Today the cigar industry got a big win. Judge Amit P. Mehta has granted a Motion for an Injunction Pending Appeal delaying the enforcement of the implementation of warning label requirements by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Warning label requirements were scheduled to go into effect on August 10th. Under Judge Mehta’s order, any […]
The lawsuit filed against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by a group of Texas cigar companies challenging the FDA’s Deeming Regulations around warning labels is moving to Washington, D.C. Judge Kimberly Priest Johnson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas reversed a previous ruling where she denied an FDA […]
Seventeen U.S. Senators have sent a letter to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb urging the agency to consider exempting premium cigars from regulation by the FDA. The letter lays out criteria for what a premium cigar should be defined as in order to be considered for exemption. The definition comes […]
The cigar industry is not backing off the fight against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s warning labels. This past Friday, the three trade associations (Cigar Association of America, Cigar Rights of America, and the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers) have asked the court for an injunction against the enforcement of the FDA’s warning […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced it has extended the comment period of the three Advanced Notice of Public Rule Making (ANPRM) initiative by 30 days. This includes the ANPRMs on regulating nicotine levels, flavored tobacco products, and the one on premium cigars. The new comment period dates are as follows: Tobacco […]
33 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have written a letter to White House Office of Management (OMB) and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney requesting a 90-day extension to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Advance Notice of Public Rule Making (ANPRM) on premium cigars. Concurrently, the members of Congress have also requested a […]
