FDA Tells Companies to Stop Selling Flavored E-cigarette Products Marketed to Youth

FDA Tells Companies to Stop Selling Flavored E-cigarette Products Marketed to Youth
A Vape lab uses an E-cigarette in London, UK, on Aug. 27, 2014. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters to ten companies, telling them to stop selling of flavored e-cigarettes and e-liquid products marketed toward youth, saying they do not have the “required premarket authorization” to do so.

Three of the companies, Puff Bar (Cool Clouds Distribution Inc.), HQD Tech USA LLC, and Myle Vape Inc., are illegally marketing disposable e-cigarettes, the FDA said in a news release Monday. A review of their websites revealed that they have been “selling or distributing unauthorized tobacco products that were first introduced or modified after Aug. 8, 2016—the effective date of the deeming rule that extended the FDA’s authority to all tobacco products,” the agency said.