Biden Opposed to Limiting FDA Power to Regulate Flavors

The Biden administration has published a Statement of Administration Policy outlining its opposition to parts of a proposed funding bill that would limit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s ability to ban flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes, reports Halfwheel.

The proposed bill would prevent the FDA from receiving funding if it introduced bans on flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes or introduced rules limiting the amount of nicotine a product can have.

The policy statement does not mention nicotine limits, although the FDA has proposed limiting nicotine.

The Statement of Administration Policy is not binding.

A new study has found that smokers who get help picking flavored e-cigarettes and receive supportive text messages are more likely to quit smoking.

Last month, the FDA gave the Center for Tobacco Research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center a $3.9 million grant to evaluate the effects of e-cigarette flavors on smoking behaviors of current adult smokers.