March 16th, 2010 — Current Issues, Nacs, Preventing Youth Consumption, Regulations: FDA etc. — Lou Maiellano
NACS Offers Webinar on FDA Tobacco Compliance
Webinar to help retailers stay abreast of the current tobacco regulatory landscape and FDA compliance.
Information can be obtained at http://www.nacsonline.com/NACS/News/Daily/Pages/ND0316101.aspx
The webinar is scheduled for Monday, March 22nd, 2010 at 2pm est.
Plan to attend!
What are your thoughts on FDA Tobacco Compliance?
After viewing the webinar did you find [...]
March 12th, 2010 — Current Issues, General, Regulations: FDA etc., Science, Snus, Snuff & Alternative Products in US Markets, Tobacco Harm Reduction, Uncategorized — Lou Maiellano
Star Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq: CIGX) announced that on Friday, February 19 the company filed an application with the Food & Drug Administration for approval to market Ariva-BDL™ as a “modified risk” tobacco product under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009. This submission is the first such application to be filed with [...]
March 12th, 2010 — Current Issues, Exhibitions — Chris Crawley
Who’s not helping the Tobacco Industry…?
Until recently we had one major exhibition in Europe every four years, TabExpo; then we had the announcement by WT that an additional event in Europe would be held. The industry wants less events – or at least lower cost – so we now have the organizations in direct competition [...]
March 2nd, 2010 — Conferences, Current Issues, Exhibitions — Lou Maiellano
The Show that means business for all those in the tobacco business. It’s @ the Las Vegas Convention Center, March 3rd & 4th 2010. Who’s going? Report back! Tell us what was good? What was new? What you learn? Have a great time! – See you at the show!
February 15th, 2010 — Fire Safe Compliant cigarettes / Low Ignition Propensity, General, Key International Business & Market Developments — Chris Crawley
Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. announced that it filed a patent infringement lawsuit recently in the United States District Court against Astra Tobacco Corporation, Delfort Group and German groups Julius Glatz, GmbH, and LIPtec, GmbH, over alleged infringement of their US patent number 6,725,867 for low ignition propensity cigarette paper.
Astra Tobacco is the sales and marketing company for Delfort group in the [...]
February 9th, 2010 — Acquisitions, Current Issues — Chris Crawley
Hauni Maschinenbau AG acquired Sodim SAS from Imperial Tobacco Group Plc on February 2 2010.
The sale by Imperial is no great surprise as Sodim clearly did not represent core business activities and was probably slated for sale soon after Imperial acquired Altadis.
In a press release Sodim reiterated its personnel, biz relationships, and location remain unaffected.
Perhaps of greater interest are the potential [...]
February 2nd, 2010 — Current Issues, General, Key International Business & Market Developments, Science, Snus, Snuff & Alternative Products in US Markets, Tobacco Harm Reduction — Lou Maiellano
In an historic first for public health, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) of the UK’s National Health Service overwhelming approved tobacco harm reduction as a key component in England’s ten year plan to reduce cigarette smoking by half. The US FDA should follow the UK’s lead. The announcement and a news excerpt are below, the press release is attached, and [...]
January 30th, 2010 — Regulations: FDA etc. — Chris Crawley
I had the privilege of starting the FDA registration process recently for a tobacco client and thought it worth sharing my experiences.
All the information on what needs to be done including a check list is available on the FDA website. This is helpful; at least there’s a template to work from.
What’s missing is exactly how to do it. [...]
