FDA Approves First State Program to Import Rx Drugs From Canada

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Florida’s program to import certain prescription medications from Canada, the agency announced. But before Florida can import the medications, the state will need to submit additional information about the drugs to the FDA, test them to make sure they are up to the agency’s standards, and replace the drugs’ labels with FDA-approved ones.

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Febbraio 2024

E-Cigarettes and FDA Nicotine Cap

To the Editor The proposal to cap nicotine concentrations in combustible cigarettes is based on sound scientific evidence that cigarettes with very low levels of nicotine will significantly reduce smoking- and tobacco-related harm. However, we believe that a proposal presented in a recent Viewpoint for a federal nicotine cap on e-cigarettes is misguided and runs contrary to current evidence. The focus on e-liquid nicotine concentrations alone is problematic because these restrictions fail to consider that e-cigarettes, unlike cigarettes, offer users ways beyond nicotine concentrations to control nicotine delivery, including manipulating device power and compensatory puffing. In fact, the best evidence suggests that this proposed policy would lead to a product that is as addictive as e-cigarettes with higher nicotine concentrations, which may be more appealing to young people, and more harmful.

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Gennaio 2024