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FDA Claims It Is Protecting Public Health by Keeping Slightly Altered Cigarettes Off the Market

Earlier this month, the FDA ' s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) < a href= " http://www.cspdailynews.com/category-news/tobacco/articles/fda-issues-not-substantially-equivalent-order-maverick-menthol " > denied < /a > a substantially equivalent order for Maverick Menthol Silver Box 100s cigarettes. This means that this cigarette brand can no longer be marketed and sold in the U.S. By definition, a " not substantially equivalent " order means that the FDA has deemed that the product raises < a href= " http://www.fda.gov/downloads/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/MarketingandAdvertising/UCM462409.pdf " > different questions of public health < /a > than cigarette brands already on the market in 2007. < br / > < br / > Last year, CTP < a href= " http://www.cspdailynews.com/category-news/tobacco/articles/rjr-responds-fda-nse-decision " > denied < /a > substantially equivalent orders for four Reynolds American brands: Camel Crush Bold, Pall Mall Deep Set Recessed Filter, Pall Mall Deep Set Recessed Filter Menthol and Vantage Tech 13 cigarettes. < br / > < br / > The director of FDA ' s CTP - Mitch Zeller - boasted that these orders will help protect the public ' s health by making sure that cigarette products meet " the public health bar set forth under law. " These orders will " protect the public from the harms caused by tobacco use, " he said: < br / > < br / > " These decisions were based on a rigorous, science-based review designed to protect the public from the harms caused by...
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