Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin threatened acting FDA Commissioner Ned Sharpless to take 'decisive action' to curb teen vaping, such as banning flavors, or resign.
Commissioner Ned Sharpless to take "decisive action" to curb teen vaping or resign.
"It is my strong belief that, if you do not take decisive action within the next ten days, you should resign your post. If you continue to refuse to do your job — which is to protect the public health — then it is time to allow someone else to take the helm,"Durbin asked the FDA to send a letter to all schools warning of health consequences of vaping, ban all e-cigarette flavors other than tobacco and to ban e-cigarette devices that the FDA has not cleared and remove them from stores.
"I have expressed these concerns to you on multiple occasions — in person, on phone calls, and in letters — as well as to your predecessor, Dr.The FDA, under former Commissioner Gottlieb, pushed back the deadline to start reviewing e-cigarettes to 2022 from 2018. A U.S. District Court earlier this summer ordered the FDA to start taking applications in 10 months, siding with public health groups who sued the agency for allegedly shirking its legal duties.
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