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Witnesses say FDA bottlenecks helped fuel illicit e‑cigarette market from overseas
Summary
Industry experts and lawmakers told the Oversight Committee the FDA’s premarket tobacco application process and slow authorizations left demand unmet, enabling large flows of illicit disposable e‑cigarettes — largely from China — into U.S. markets, including products popular with youth.
Lawmakers and witnesses at a House Oversight hearing blamed the Food and Drug Administration’s approach to authorizing e‑cigarettes for creating conditions that allowed a large illicit market to take root.
Guy Bentley, Director of Consumer Freedom at the Reason Foundation, told the committee that regulatory bottlenecks around the FDA’s premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) pathway have blocked a regulated supply of safer nicotine alternatives. “Since 2019, illicit products have flooded the market with almost 90% of e‑cigarettes being…
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