AVM Statement on FDA's response to Reagan-Udall

After the scorching findings from the Reagan-Udall report, the FDA should be issuing a mea culpa to the American public for the calamity created by the agency's insistence on crushing the nicotine vaping product market. That report exposed an arbitrary, totally opaque process by which scientific results were quashed in favor of politics in what are supposed to be purely independent application reviews.

But instead of taking responsibility, the agency is proposing yet more task forces, more bureaucrats, and even a so-called '5-year plan,' which is government shorthand for punt, retreat, and see you later. It’s not good enough, not by a long shot, and the millions of Americans relying on vaping products to stay off cigarettes have once again been cast to the wind by the FDA’s chronic negligence and indifference.