FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   October 22, 2021   FDA Rescinds Marketing Denial Order for Fumizer’s  Twist E-Liquids Products   Fumizer LLC, the manufacturer of Twist E-Liquids vapor products, recently received notice that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rescinded its September 9, 2021 Marketing Denial Order for certain flavored vapor products with pending Premarket Tobacco Product Applications (PMTA). The rescission noted that upon further review the FDA found relevant information that was not adequately assessed previously. Therefore, Twist E-liquids’ products have been placed back into the review process, and will continue to be marketed while they remain under review. ...

From our previous post about "What is Tobacco Free Nicotine?," synthetic nicotine products are not alone in their prominent marketing as “tobacco-free” products. Products that are promoted as tobacco-leaf free or “extracted from tobacco” include Velo, on!, Rogue, Zyn, and Lucy. These products are not synthetic because they use nicotine derived from tobacco, but they are marketed similarly, including with claims like “clean” and “pure,” which may be misleading to consumers. Both types of products are marketed as “tobacco-free” because they don’t contain any tobacco leaf and even though these products may not look all that different, there are important regulatory differences between tobacco-derived nicotine...