Since Commissioner Gottlieb's appointment, US FDA has challenged END industry more aggressively to eliminate products and advertising targeting children and has said sales to minors could be a focal point of an FDA action to ban all e-cigarette sales. Finding pharmaceutical ingredients in liquid nicotine could make a general ban on e-cigarette sales more likely in addition to imperiling approval for a smoking cessation indication.
A Chinese firm is casting a shadow over electronic cigarettes' chances in the US to be approved as medical products for smoking cessation as well as potentially over the entire industry's future by selling liquid nicotine spiked with erectile dysfunction drugs.
A warning letter to Shanghai HelloCig Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. that US FDA published on Oct. 11 states that the...