APHA 141st Annual Meeting and Exposition

[pamdis]

Is anyone attending this? Looks like there are lots of interesting things that will be happening there:

https://apha.confex.com/apha/141am/webprogram/ATOD.html

https://apha.confex.com/apha/141am/webprogram/postersATOD.html

Especially this:

https://apha.confex.com/apha/141am/webprogram/Paper295582.html
[h=2]Update from the fda's center for tobacco products

[/h]Monday, November 4, 2013 : 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Mitchell Zeller, J.D. , Center for tobacco Products, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD



The evolution in the marketplace for tobacco and nicotine over the past decade poses profound questions for FDA now that it is regulating tobacco products. Under the public health standard that is central to key provisions in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, FDA has to assess the net population level health impacts of new products and potential health-related claims for these products. This presentation will explain that new standard and describe the most relevant provisions of the Act. The opportunity for an agency-wide comprehensive nicotine regulatory policy will also be reviewed. Finally, recent regulatory actions by FDA will be explained.

 

[AgentAnia]

The evolution in the marketplace for tobacco and nicotine over the past decade poses profound questions for FDA now that it is regulating tobacco products. Under the public health standard that is central to key provisions in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, FDA has to assess the net population level health impacts of new products and potential health-related claims for these products. This presentation will explain that new standard and describe the most relevant provisions of the Act. The opportunity for an agency-wide comprehensive nicotine regulatory policy will also be reviewed. Finally, recent regulatory actions by FDA will be explained.

Nicotine regulatory policy?

 

[Uma]

Recent regulatory actions will be explained?
the FDA has to consider the health of the masses before considering the health of the possibles... But don't worry, we've a new and improved nic reg to submit...
Or am I just reading into it?

 

[DC2]

Nicotine regulatory policy?

Looks like the transition is about complete...

Smoking -----> Tobacco -----> Nicotine

Plan is firmly in place, lies, deception and brainwashing to follow.

 

[AgentAnia]

Looks like the transition is about complete...

Smoking -----> Tobacco -----> Nicotine

Plan is firmly in place, lies, deception and brainwashing to follow.

Did they think we wouldn't notice?

 

[Bill Godshall]

The APHA can't find its way out of a paper bag, as far left wing activists took over that organization decades ago.

After authoring a half dozen APHA resolutions to reduce cigarette smoking, and after attending a half dozen APHA conferences, I walked out of the 1994 APHA conference (and never renewed my membership since) after a bunch of APHA officers/chairs (who all favored single payer socialized medicine) denounced Hillary Clinton's proposed healthcare reform legislative proposal as protecting the profits of healthcare insurers at the expense of public health.

Regardless, Zeller cannot tell APHA conference attendees anything about not yet proposed FDA regulations.

But Zeller is likely to mislead the APHA (just like everyone else) to believe that the TCA requires tobacco products to first prove (to Zeller and the FDA's satisfaction) that they'll never be used by any youth, nontobacco user or former tobacco user before the agency can allow the product to be marketed to 45 million adult cigarette smokers.

 

[AgentAnia]

[....]Regardless, Zeller cannot tell APHA conference attendees anything about not yet proposed FDA regulations.

But Zeller is likely to mislead the APHA (just like everyone else) to believe that the TCA requires tobacco products to first prove (to Zeller and the FDA's satisfaction) that they'll never be used by any youth, nontobacco user or former tobacco user before the agency can allow the product to be marketed to 45 million adult cigarette smokers.

Maybe he'll fill them in on why he's having such problems processing SE applications...