FDA Asks Court If It Can Defer PMTA Enforcement For Premium Cigars

(August 7, 2020, 2:30 PM EDT) -- BALTIMORE — The Food and Drug Administration in an Aug. 5 letter asks the Maryland federal judge who originally set a Premarket Tobacco Application (PMTA) deadline for newly deemed tobacco products for permission to file a motion to clarify if the FDA may defer enforcement of the premarket authorization requirement for premium cigars or alternatively for relief from that requirement as the FDA wants to focus its "limited resources" on higher enforcement priorities like flavored e-cigarettes (American Academy of Pediatrics, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al., No. 18-883, D. Md.)....

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