Bidi Vapor Calls for Removal of Non-Compliant Vapes

During a recent webcast, Bidi Vapor leadership called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to do more to stop the flood of non-compliant vaping products from entering the market.

In a recently produced webcast, “Vape Update: Getting Noncompliant Devices Off the Market,” Bidi Vapor executives detailed current enforcement activities the agency has been ramping up throughout the industry and touched on potential solutions, such as tracking scan data to identify unlawful companies.

“It’s a major public health concern when these illicit, noncompliant and non-regulated products are overtaking the legal products,” said Niraj Patel, CEO of Bidi Vapor. “These illegal products used to be in just mom-and-pop stores, but now, these products are breaking into the franchise market, and showing up in the Nielsen numbers. But this list also puts pressure on the FDA and all other law enforcement agencies to do their jobs.”

Data from Nielsen, a New York-based data-collection firm, has the ability to provide the information needed to make a larger impact on the illicit market, according to Russell Quick, president of Bidi Vapor’s marketing firm, Kaival Marketing Services, reports CStoreDecisions.

“Law enforcement can now track the supply chain,” Quick said in the webcast. “We can identify the distributors and retailers that are selling these non-compliant, illegal, illicit products. So both federal and state level authorities can issue warnings, fines, civil penalties or even harsher monetary penalties to these companies that are participating in and distributing these illegal products.”

Bidi Vapor also produced two related infographics on illicit vape products and the illicit market to accompany the webcast. To download the graphics: “How to Spot Illicit Vape” and “Rise of Illicit Vape.”

The full webcast can be found here.