FDA Seizes Documents From Juul in Latest E-Cigarette Crackdown

FDA Seizes Documents From Juul in Latest E-Cigarette Crackdown
Electronic cigarettes and pods by Juul, the nation's largest maker of vaping products, are offered for sale at the Smoke Depot on September 13, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it seized more than a thousand pages of documents from Juul Labs related to the company’s sales and marketing practices after a surprise inspection on Oct. 2, in the latest clampdown on e-cigarette companies.

The FDA said last month it was considering a ban on flavored e-cigarettes from Juul and others, as the agency grapples with an “epidemic” of youth e-cigarette use that threatens to create a new generation of nicotine addicts.