FDA’s proposed product standards ‘will help the big boys by hurting small ones’

Fears have been raised that new product standards proposed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to protect consumer health may be costly to implement and overly burdensome for smaller companies.

The FDA has proposed a series of new requirements for tobacco products that would apply controls to product design and development, establish manufacturing specifications, prevent contamination and prohibit the manufacture or distribution of products that do not meet specifications.