The Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday introduced it had quickly suspended its ban on gross sales of the favored e-cigarette maker Juul.
“On July 5, 2022, FDA administratively stayed the advertising and marketing denial order,” the company’s tobacco division wrote in a tweet. “The company has decided that there are scientific points distinctive to the JUUL utility that warrant extra evaluation.”
“This administrative keep quickly suspends the advertising and marketing denial order in the course of the extra evaluation however doesn’t rescind it,” FDA Tobacco mentioned in its Twitter thread.
“All digital nicotine supply techniques, or ENDS merchandise, together with these made by JUUL, are required by legislation to have FDA authorization to be legally marketed,” FDA Tobacco concluded. “The keep and the company’s evaluation doesn’t represent authorization to market, promote, or ship JUUL merchandise.”
The company additionally mentioned that the corporate is allowed to market its merchandise within the U.S. in the interim.
Two weeks earlier, the well being company banned the sale of Juul e-cigarettes, saying that the corporate didn’t show that retaining its merchandise available on the market “could be applicable for the safety of the general public well being.”
In a press release, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf mentioned that Juul has performed a serious position within the rise of vaping amongst U.S. youth.
“Immediately’s motion is additional progress on the FDA’s dedication to making sure that each one e-cigarette and digital nicotine supply system merchandise presently being marketed to shoppers meet our public well being requirements,” Califf mentioned in his assertion.
A federal appeals courtroom a day later quickly blocked the FDA ban on Juul, granting the e-cigarette maker’s request for a keep, noting that its order won’t mirror its ruling on the case.
