WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE? | Lack of Urgency Mires U.S. Nicotine Industry | RegWatch

So the theme of the first one, the industry focused one, was looking at regulations and there was quite a few presentations by FDA people or regulatory people.

And then there was presentations by industry people.

And I found it was a big love in like they were so polite to one another.

Clearly, the industry has all these products that have been blocked.

According to what I heard, there's literally millions of applications sitting in FDA that have not been approved and have been in limbo.

And they trickle out the odd approval of safer nicotine products.

And industry seemed totally okay with it.

Like nobody's standing up and going, this is crazy.

We need to get this moving quicker.

So I really picked up there wasn't just the urgency that I expected, you know, and that people were just so polite to one another.

The FDA was complimentary of the industry and how great their applications had become.

And the industry was very grateful that the FDA was forward looking now and they're trying to change.

At the end of the day, nothing's happening.

They're still blocking all these products and industry's not moving ahead.

And meanwhile, it's not as though when they don't approve a product that these products don't get out there.

It's this massive illegal market that nobody's really even talking about.

So in the U.S., safer nicotine is, I think, 80% illegal.

It's ridiculous.

They're talking way up here in the sky when the world's moving ahead.

from a public health perspective, the society is just being flooded with illegal and, in many cases, substandard products.

So that didn't really come out enough.