The FDA announced a final rule implementing requirements around the minimum age of 21 to buy tobacco products.
FDA Issues Final Rule Around Tobacco 21 Enforcement | Cigar News
Supreme Court Strikes Down Chevron Deference Curtailing the Power of Federal Agencies | Cigar News
With striking down the Chevron Deference, the Supreme Court has cut backon the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer.
FDA Files Brief Appealing Judge Mehta Vacating Deeming Rule | Cigar News
FDA Files Brief Appealing Judge Mehta Vacating Deeming Rule
Cigar News: House Joint Resolution 99 Introduced to Exempt Premium Cigars from FDA Regulations
While Judge Mehta’s decision has overturned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Deeming Rule, the FDA still wants to regulate premium cigars. Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) has introduced House Joint Resolution 99 (H.J.99). This is legislation that Cigar Rights of America (CRA) has been working on behind the scenes to ensure the FDA will […]
Cigar News: FDA Sends Proposed Rules for Bans on Flavored Cigars to OMB
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent its proposed rules that would ban flavored cigars to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. Also going to the OMB is the proposed ban on menthol cigarettes. The proposed rules will now be reviewed by the OMB’s Office of Information and […]
Cigar News: CRA and PCA Submit Comments to FDA’s Proposed Tobacco Products Manufacturing Practice (TPMP) Regulations
With the comment period of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed Tobacco Products Manufacturing Practice (TPMP) rule set to end today, both Cigar Rights of America (CRA) and the Premium Cigar Association have submitted comments on the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed Tobacco Products Manufacturing Practice (TPMP) rule. Under this rule, […]
Cigar News: DOJ Files Appeal on Decision to Vacate FDA’s Deeming Rule on Premium Cigars
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed paperwork on behalf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with the courts officially appealing the decision made by Judge Amit P. Mehta that ordered the Deeming Rule to be defeated. The Court of Appeals typically reviews the case that was decided in District Court to […]
Feature Story: Post-Game Thoughts on the Deeming Rule Being Vacated
Last week, Judge Amit P Mehta ruled in favor of the premium cigar industry in its battle against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and ordered that the Deeming Rule, which would regulate premium cigars, be vacated. A year earlier Judge Mehta ruled the FDA’s decision not to exempt premium cigars from regulation on the […]
Cigar News: SRNT Journal Article Shows FDA Still Very Much Focused on Regulating Premium Cigars
While the premium cigar industry is celebrating a victory with the Courts ordering the Deeming Rule for Premium Cigars to be vacated, there are still strong indications the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is continuing to invest in research to shape future regulation of the Premium Cigar industry. Last month, a supplemental issue of […]
Cigar News: Judge Mehta Orders FDA’s Deeming Rule to be Vacated
The cigar industry has perhaps gotten its biggest win to date in its battle against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Today Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia has ordered the Deeming Rule for premium cigars be vacated. The Deeming Rule subjected premium cigars to regulation […]
