{"id":4732,"date":"2023-12-18T15:39:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T15:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2023-12-18T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T15:39:48","slug":"global-us-fda-cpb-seize-illegal-e-cigarettes-worth-18-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/global-us-fda-cpb-seize-illegal-e-cigarettes-worth-18-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Global: US FDA, CPB seize illegal e-cigarettes worth $18 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\">The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) along with the Customs and Border Protection (CPB) has seized more than $18 million worth of unauthorized e-cigarettes which included brands such as Elf Bar, the health regulator said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\">About 1.4 million units were confiscated in a joint operation at a cargo examination site at Los Angeles International Airport, the FDA said in a\u00a0<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__underline_default__2prE_\" href=\"https:\/\/fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/joint-federal-operation-results-seizure-more-18-million-illegal-e-cigarettes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>, as the agency moves to stem the flow of illegal e-cigarettes into the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\">Elf Bar was the most commonly used e-cigarette brand among the youth, according to the 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey. In addition to Elf Bar, other seized brands included EB Create, Lost Mary, Funky Republic, RELX Pod and IPLAY Max.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\">While attempting to smuggle the e-cigarettes, the items were intentionally mis-declared as toys or shoes and listed with incorrect values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\">Earlier on\u00a0Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged governments to have tobacco-style controls and ban all flavors of e-cigarettes or vapes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\">The push for stringent regulations on newer nicotine products comes at a time when tobacco giants like Philip Morris International, Altria Group\u00a0and British American Tobacco\u00a0bet on e-cigarettes to capture the growing demand for these products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) along with the Customs and Border Protection (CPB) has seized more than $18 million worth of unauthorized e-cigarettes which included brands such as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulatory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FDA-and-CPB-Collaborate-to-Seize-18-Million-Worth-of-Illegal-E-Cigarettes.jpg?fit=696%2C464&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4742,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions\/4742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}