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.