22nd Century Group Inc (XXII)

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How the heck is Mitch Zeller still employed at the FDA?! This is leadership? On who's behalf? Sure hope XXII isn't relying on him with assurances that MRTP is coming soon.....

FDA’s continuing delay and unlawful refusal to ban menthol.

102. Meanwhile, despite Director Zeller’s reported assurance in 2013 that “there was ‘no holdup’” concerning FDA’s determination or regulation of menthol in cigarettes, FDA for the next four years (i.e., Summer of 2013 – Summer of 2017) remained largely silent about its potential regulation of menthol cigarettes.

103. Around the same time, however, many other countries began moving to ban menthol in cigarettes
104. Then in 2017, the agency finally seemed poised to take actual steps to regulate menthol cigarettes, as described below.
105. But by 2019, FDA and the other defendants had again backed away, continuing their ongoing pattern of delay and inaction on this critical public health issue.