FDA Tells 4th Circuit New Vaping Regulations Render Appeals Moot

Mealey's (February 3, 2020, 8:52 AM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — U.S. government agencies argue in a Jan. 23 brief to the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that ongoing challenges to a 2019 federal court ruling setting new deadlines for premarket applications for e-cigarettes and other tobacco products, filed by vaping and cigar industry associations and businesses, have been rendered moot by new Food and Drug Administration regulations issued in January that advanced some deadlines to February and further contend that these regulations are within the agency’s administrative purview and thus not subject to judicial review (In re: Cigar Association Of America, et al., No. 19-2130, 4th Cir.)....