“A medical expert urged the Food and Drugs Administration to base the proposed vape and heated tobacco regulations on science — not on fiction — in the wake of the beleaguered agency’s admission that it received funding from foreign anti-tobacco organizations. The FDA has conducted two public consultations during which members of Congress compelled it to admit receiving funding from The Union and Bloomberg Initiative, US-based philanthropies working to eliminate use of any tobacco product. The admission triggered calls for a full-blown congressional inquiry into the issue. Mata noted that his group participated in the FDA public consultation “hoping for a robust and substantive discussion on science not fiction.” But he said, “We were treated to a farcical consultation, a mere tick-the-box exercise for the sake of simply holding one.””
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Base vape, heated tobacco regulations on science, not fiction, says expert
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