US FDA earns bouquets and brickbats with warning on flavoured gummies

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s warning to a Florida-based manufacturer over illegal flavoured nicotine gummies has been welcomed by public health organisations, while it has not gone down well with some representatives of the vaping industry.

The non-profit Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids welcomed the action against Krave gummies, which it says “pose serious risks to kids”. Leading the opposition to the FDA action was Charles Gardner, executive director of the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organisations (INNCO), who described nicotine gummies as a niche product and said that by focusing on nicotine, the agency was missing greater dangers.

 

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Antonia Di Lorenzo

Assistant news editor/senior reporter
Antonia is a member of the editorial team and holds a masters degree in Law from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She moved in 2013 to London, where she completed a postgraduate course at the London School of Journalism. In the UK, she worked as a news reporter for a financial newswire and a magazine before moving to Barcelona in 2019.

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