The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) banned all of JUUL Labs Inc’s products on June 23 from the market, delivering a blow to the popular e-cigarette company.
“Today’s action is further progress on the FDA’s commitment to ensuring that all e-cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system products currently being marketed to consumers meet our public health standards,” said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf in a news release.
According to the FDA, they found that JUUL’s application submitted over two years ago “lacked sufficient evidence” regarding the toxicology levels of the products, in particular, some of the evidence was found to be “insufficient and conflicting,” including those regarding the genotoxicity and potentially harmful chemicals in the company’s e-liquid pods….