The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent 30 retailers and one supplier warning letters for illegally selling various types of Puff and Hyde brand disposable e-cigarettes, which were two of the most commonly reported brands used by youth e-cigarette users in 2022. The Puff products include Puff Bar. “Protecting our nation’s youth from tobacco…
Retailers Wait on FDA Final Rules
More than 100 cigar and cigarette makers, along with several hundred distributors and thousands of c-store retailers are waiting for the next word on tobacco flavor and menthol rulemaking from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Earlier this year, the FDA Center for Tobacco Products indicated it was still holding to an August 2023 final…
Will Flavor Regulation Target Smokeless Tobacco?
The question is being asked by worried retailers all across the convenience store landscape: will flavor regulation target smokeless tobacco? The answer, unfortunately, appears to be: eventually. While smokeless tobacco is considered mostly safe for now, there are some states that have begun targeting the product. Smokeless tobacco has largely flown under the radar of…
Online Food Ordering Offers Convenience
As foodservice continues to climb in importance at convenience stores, retailers are taking advantage of technology to allow customers more options when they order. At GetGo Café + Market, headquartered in Pittsburgh, customers can place foodservice orders via the company’s website or the GetGo app on iOS and Android up to 24 hours in advance,…
New Bill to Possibly Stop FDA Flavor and Menthol Bans
On May 17, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations issued a draft of the Fiscal Year 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Related Agencies Bill. The bill includes provisions that would prevent the FDA from banning the use of menthol in cigarettes, prohibiting characterizing flavors in all cigars or…
FDA Issues Over 250 MDOs For Mothers Milk WTA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued marketing denial orders to the firm Mothers Milk WTA for more than 250 flavored and tobacco-flavored e-liquids, determining that their premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) lacked sufficient evidence to show the products are appropriate for the protection of public health. “One of our most important responsibilities…
FDA Issues Import Alert on ENDS Products
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has deemed that certain “Red List” tobacco products can be detained without physical examination at U.S. borders in a new import alert. The items on the Red List are those that do not have marketing authorization. Companies can remove their products from the list if they can provide information…
A Look at Tobacco’s Legislative Landscape
On the heels of Californians voting to enforce a statewide ban on flavored tobacco and nicotine products, including menthol, legislators introduced a bill that aimed to eventually outlaw tobacco sales. Assembly Bill (AB) 935 looked to prohibit anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007, from buying tobacco products in the Golden State. The California Association of…
6,500 Flavored E-Cigarette Products Receive MDOs
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued marketing denial orders (MDOs) for approximately 6,500 flavored e-liquid and e-cigarette products on May 12. The 10 companies affected are: Imperial Vapors LLC Savage Enterprises Big Time Vapes SWT Global Supply Inc. Great Lakes Vapor DNA Enterprise LLC dba Mech Sauce Absolute Vapor Inc. ECBlend LLC FDA is…
When Is a Menthol Not a Menthol?
By now everyone in the c-store business knows that California has banned flavored tobacco products. There was plenty of advance notice because the ban was delayed for two years until voter approval upheld the law. Meanwhile, menthol cigarette makers had time to adjust to the new rules. Newport Non-Menthol, Camel Crush Oasis (non-Menthol) and Non-Menthol…