Might the president implement overhauls to food, tobacco and consumer product safety?
Richmond partner Bryan Haynes was quoted in a November 6 Law360 article about President Barack Obama focusing on fully implementing the dramatic overhauls to food, tobacco and consumer product safety he oversaw in his first term since he was reelected to a second term in November. The president might also look for opportunities to further reform oversight of drugs and chemicals the article contended. On the tobacco front, the FDA is expected to issue regulations for cigars, pipe tobacco and electronic cigarettes, Haynes said. The Tobacco Control Act gave the agency the ability to oversee those products, but it has not yet issued regulations for them, as it has for cigarettes and certain other types of tobacco.
“That obviously would add a whole new regulatory burden for those companies,” Haynes further said. “The likes of which they haven’t seen.”