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CASAA has issued a Call to Action for the Second FDA Workshop. The second workshop focused on issues related to individual health, and we think vapers have a great deal of information that FDA should be aware of.
Please see the Call to Action for the Second FDA Workshop for information on how to submit a comment: http://blog.casaa.org/2015/04/call-to-action-submit-comments-on-fdas.html
(CASAA has also updated the Call to Action for the First FDA Workshop to note that the deadline was extended to July 2, 2015 and to provide new docket information: http://blog.casaa.org/2015/03/call-to-action-submit-comments-on-fdas.html
FDA claims that these workshops have nothing to do with their decision about whether and how to impose the “deeming” regulations and are only to inform the eventual regulation, but this is ridiculous. Whatever information flows now will obviously affect both.
The good news is that consumers and other experts on e-cigarettes have an opportunity to comment on this matter.
We know that the vaping community -- which includes everyone from small manufacturers, to DIY modders, to consumers who make themselves expert on the hardware or liquid -- has more collective expertise than FDA and their supposed “experts.” We need to collect examples.
1st - Please try to recall your favorite writings on the relevant topics from: threads on ECF or other forums; informative blog posts by consumers, consumer advocates, or vendors; how-to videos; etc. Keep in mind that the topic at hand is characteristics of e-cigarette hardware and liquid, including variations, modding options, etc.
Now, there are more details which CASAA provides in-depth as well as pre-written material for those who would benefit from a template, however, if we as members of the vaping community value our freedom we cannot take a passive role in this discussion. Doing so will only provide the FDA as a governing body unvetted and unchecked permission to trample over what we have found as a viable alternative to "Big Tobacco".
Indeed, given their own whims, electronic cigarettes and eliquids will likely be given to large corporations and all the small business will be shut down or regulated into nonexistence.
Now is the time to speak up and be active in this process!!!
Please see the Call to Action for the Second FDA Workshop for information on how to submit a comment: http://blog.casaa.org/2015/04/call-to-action-submit-comments-on-fdas.html
(CASAA has also updated the Call to Action for the First FDA Workshop to note that the deadline was extended to July 2, 2015 and to provide new docket information: http://blog.casaa.org/2015/03/call-to-action-submit-comments-on-fdas.html
FDA claims that these workshops have nothing to do with their decision about whether and how to impose the “deeming” regulations and are only to inform the eventual regulation, but this is ridiculous. Whatever information flows now will obviously affect both.
The good news is that consumers and other experts on e-cigarettes have an opportunity to comment on this matter.
We know that the vaping community -- which includes everyone from small manufacturers, to DIY modders, to consumers who make themselves expert on the hardware or liquid -- has more collective expertise than FDA and their supposed “experts.” We need to collect examples.
1st - Please try to recall your favorite writings on the relevant topics from: threads on ECF or other forums; informative blog posts by consumers, consumer advocates, or vendors; how-to videos; etc. Keep in mind that the topic at hand is characteristics of e-cigarette hardware and liquid, including variations, modding options, etc.
- This includes:
- product engineering (how the devices work, new innovations, how to optimize them, etc.),
- physics,
- chemistry,
- the toxicological (effect of chemicals on health) implications of those.
Now, there are more details which CASAA provides in-depth as well as pre-written material for those who would benefit from a template, however, if we as members of the vaping community value our freedom we cannot take a passive role in this discussion. Doing so will only provide the FDA as a governing body unvetted and unchecked permission to trample over what we have found as a viable alternative to "Big Tobacco".
Indeed, given their own whims, electronic cigarettes and eliquids will likely be given to large corporations and all the small business will be shut down or regulated into nonexistence.
Now is the time to speak up and be active in this process!!!
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