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The <\/span>USVA (United States Vaping Association)<\/span><\/a>, a trade association that represents the small vapor industry is suing the FDA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>lawsuit<\/span> is challenging the PMTA final rule because the FDA failed to properly consider the impact this seemingly impossible and expensive process would have on small businesses.\u00a0 In the deeming rule, the FDA spoke as if vapor applicants would be able to substantially rely on public data, or on 70 studies the FDA itself was conducting at that time.\u00a0 In the end, the FDA wrote an impossibly burdensome PMTA rule that is putting a lot of people in this industry out of business. Yet, in fact the FDA claimed that there would be no significant impact on small businesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The lawsuit asks for relief for these businesses that are members of the USVA.\u00a0 The relief the lawsuit is seeking is as follows:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Declare the PMTA Final Rule in violation of the Regulatory Flexibility Act;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Remand the PMTA Final Rule to the FDA; and\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Enjoin the FDA from enforcing the PMTA Final Rule against any members of the USVA, and to take such actions as are necessary and proper to remedy their violations deriving from any such actual or attempted enforcement; and\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Not only did the FDA not create a small business pathway, through FOIA requests via <\/span>Filter Magazine<\/span><\/a> we learned that they prioritized manufacturers with the greatest market share, companies who clearly had the funds to afford to fully go through the entire PMTA process and even allowed these companies to make changes to issues with their submissions that smaller companies just received MDO\u2019s for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Further FOIA requests via <\/span>Filter<\/span><\/a> shows us that once upon a time the FDA had originally intended to handle these PMTA applications in a very different way. In August of 2020 they released a memorandum titled \u201cBundling and Bracketing Approach for Review of ENDS Open E-Liquid PMTA\u2019s\u201d In this memorandum the message below shows what could have been for the small vapor industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u201cFDA anticipates that a substantial portion of PMTA ENDS submissions during the compliance period will consist of open e-liquids that contain hundreds to thousands of products with variations in CF [characterizing flavor], nicotine concentration, and PG:VG [<\/span>propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin<\/span><\/a>]\u00a0ratio based on the tobacco ingredient listing submitted by tobacco product manufacturers and importers,\u201d the memo reads. \u201cTo increase the likelihood that more tobacco products will be reviewed and receive marketing orders before the end of the compliance period, the Office of Science (OS) is implementing a bundling-bracketing review approach for ENDs open e-liquids PMTAs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    By 2021 this was thrown out and replaced by the \u201cFatal Flaw\u201d standard. This new standard was a death blow to the industry and ultimately has brought us here.<\/span><\/p>\n

    If the FDA will not do what they legally are obligated to do under the<\/span> RFA (Regulatory Flexibility Act)<\/span><\/a>, consider this impact on small businesses and create a pathway that is feasible for these small entities then clearly the industry has no choice but to take them back to court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    The USVA (United States Vaping Association), a trade association that represents the small vapor industry is suing the FDA.\u00a0 The lawsuit is challenging the PMTA final rule because the FDA failed to properly consider the impact this seemingly impossible and expensive process would have on small businesses.\u00a0 In the deeming rule, the FDA spoke as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nTrade Association USVA Sues FDA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The USVA (United States Vaping Association), a trade association that represents the small vapor industry is suing the FDA.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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