FDA Warns Dutch Tobacco Company for Use of 'Mild' Description, Flavoring
The Food and Drug Administration warned CigarWebService of the Netherlands that violations of the Food Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C Act) by its cigarette tobacco products could result in penalties, no-sale orders, criminal prosecution, seizure, and/or injunction, it said in a…
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warning letter dated June 25 and posted to its website July 10. Among other things, the FDA said a product for sale on CigarWebService’s websites called “Brookfield (mild American blend)” violates the FD&C Act because its description as “mild” makes it a modified risk product, which cannot be sold in the U.S. without FDA approval. The FDA also singled out CigarWebService’s Pink Elephant Vanilla Flavor cigarettes, which contain flavoring in violation of the FD&C Act.