Health Groups Support FDA’s E-Cig Regulation Petition To SCOTUS

Public health groups are weighing in on FDA’s petition asking the Supreme Court to consider a circuit split over whether the agency must give individual consideration to the scientific evidence on each marketing application for a flavored e-cigarette product or can reject the applications en masse over their potential to increase youth smoking. The health and medical groups say, if allowed to stand, the Fifth Circuit’s ruling on the issue “will undermine FDA’s exercise of its authority to protect...