Group set to file complaint vs FDA

A consumer group threatened to file a complaint against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for accepting grants from “foreign interest groups,” which they claimed ignored the viewpoints of stakeholders who would be affected in the agency’s crafting of the guidelines on rules and regulations of electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs)

In a statement, the president of the Nicotine Consumers Union of the Philippines, Anton Israel, said the group would file a case against the FDA for adopting an administrative order that was “lifted from the playbook of their anti-tobacco patrons.”