Food and Drug Administration approval needed on electronic cigarettes as substance distribution devices

E-cigs are the electronic cigarettes that are called the future of smoking. The Food and drug administration wants to show a group of e-cigarette businesses what that entails. Five of the electronic cigarette businesses advertised e-cigs to help numerous quit smoking. The Food and Drug Administration instantly issued warnings for this. Unsafe manufacturing processes and adulterated products was what some of the e-cigarette corporations were said to are already doing. One of the electronic cigarette manufacturers had drugs for impotence problems and weight loss in its product. The substance delivery products are violating law, says the FDA. Until the FDA has done clinical trials and given its approval, this will be the case. Article resource – Agency says electronic cigarettes need FDA app! roval as drug delivery devices by Personal Money Store.

FDA says e-cigs don’t help smokers quit

The FDA sent nasty letters on Thursday to electronic cigarette businesses. Five were chosen to receive it. WebMD reports the letters warned the e-cig firms that their products violate drug safety laws. The FDA has given them 15 working days to revise “practices which violate various provisions of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.” False claims of helping people quit smoking were made by all five corporations, says the FDA. The FDA sent one more letter to the Electronic Cigarette Association saying that an approval has to be made on drug delivery devices as the e-cig is legally defined. WebMD said that to get FDA approval, e-cig firms need to conduct lengthy and expensive clinical trials to collect data proving the products are safe. Corporations with FDA warnings are:

1. Cixi E-Cig Technology Inc. Ltd., Las Vegas, Nev.
2. E-Cigarette Direct LLC, Parker, Colo.
3. Gamucci America/Smokey Bayou Inc., Jacksonville, Fla.
4. There’s also Johnson Creek Enterprises LLC, Johnson Creek, Wis.
5. And then there’s Ruyan America Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.

Antifreeze in e-cigs

Tests were done by the FDA. These tests were on electronic cigarettes. Med Page Today showed some tests that the Food and Drug Administration published in June on the electronic cigarettes. These tests showed that carcinogens such as nitrosamines and the poisonous ingredient in antifreeze, diethylene glycol, are both in e-cigarettes. E-cigs don’t have any warnings about health on the package like tobacco cigarettes and FDA-approved nicotine patches and gum have. The FDA said no e-cigarette company has yet submitted an application to the organization for evaluation or authorization.

E-cigs popular

The “safe” choice to tobacco cigarettes, e-cigs, came out at first in 2002. USA Today explains when electronic cigarettes really became popular. It was not until 2006. Last year the FDA directed customs officials to block entry of imported e-cigs into the country. Stopping shipments was too much. A federal judge ruled against the FDA. The FDA then won a stay of that ruling on an appeal while litigation is scheduled for later in the month. The result will affect millions. Millions use the e-cig. 20,000 to 30,000 customers are new to the industry each week. This is what is expected.

More on this topic

Web MD

webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20100909/e-cigarette-firms-get-fda-warning

Med Page Today

medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/FDAGeneral/22103

USA Today

usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2010-09-09-fda-electronic-cigarettes_N.htm