"Based on all these considerations, FDA has determined that, as a reasonable preliminary timetable, the Agency intends to issue a decision on a MRTP application within 360 days of its receipt by FDA."
The company also submitted two applications for approval of dissolvable smokeless tobacco products in 2010: Ariva-BDL™ in February, and Stonewall-BDL™ in June.
Star Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq: CIGX) announced that on Friday, February19 the company filed an application with the Food & Drug Administration forapproval to market Ariva-BDL(TM) as a "modified risk" tobacco product underthe Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009.