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Further Amendments to General Regulations of the Food and Drug Administration to Incorporate Tobacco Products - Small Entity Compliance Guide: Guidance for Industry

FinalCenter for Tobacco Products03/17/2023

Description

This guidance is intended to help small businesses understand and comply with FDA’s amendments to certain of its regulations to include tobacco products, where appropriate, in light of FDA’s authority to regulate these products under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act). With these amendments, tobacco products are subject to the same general requirements that apply to other FDA-regulated products. Parties must be in compliance with that final rule beginning on April 2, 2012.

Scope & Applicability

Product Classes

3
Modified Risk Tobacco Product

Relating to the withdrawal of an order for introduction into interstate commerce

Tobacco Product

Subject of the analytical testing method validation; regulatory submission for a tobacco product

Tobacco Products

The primary product category covered by this guidance.; Validation and Verification of Analytical Testing Methods Used for Tobacco Products

Stakeholders

2
Small Business

Target audience for the compliance guide

Small Entity

Target audience for the compliance guide

Regulatory Context

Attributes

1
Misleading

labeling shall be deemed misleading if it fails to reveal facts

Related CFR Sections (4)

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See Also (8)

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