As occurred at the FDA's first two e-cig workshops, the most objective, informative and entertaining part of the third FDA workshop was the public comment period. Among the 11 presenters, 7 of us were
vaping advocates, 3 were ANTZ, and Scott Ballin gave his same speech.
They only gave us 3 minutes per person (since 19 people signed up to speak), but only 11 of us showed up (as it appears some ANTZ have been signing up and then not showing up just to reduce the time
vaping advocates are allowed to speak).
This workshop was by far the worst of the three (for accurate and objective presentations about scientific evidence on vapor products), as FDA waited to invite many of their least honest and objective funded junk scientists and propagandists to present at this workshop.
Had FDA been truly interested in the scientific evidence on
vaping, they wouldn't have rejected requests to present by many of the world's leading experts, and they wouldn't have stacked all three workshops with DHHS funded presenters and panelists who misrepresented the evidence to demonize e-cigs and lobby for the deeming reg and many other unwarranted regulation.
But then again, the only reason FDA held these three workshops is so they tell the news media, members of Congress and eventually federal judges that they conducted extensive scientific reviews on e-cigs before imposing the deeming regulation (that would ban >99.9% of all nicotine vapor products now on the market).
These were never intended as scientific events by the FDA, but rather lobbying events to promote the deeming regulation, and to cover up the agencies many lies about e-cigs and their proposed regulation (er ban).