FDA Won't Enforce Some Cigar Labeling Requirements Taking Effect in 2018

The Food and Drug Administration will not “at this time” enforce warning label size and placement requirements for certain cigars and small packages set forth in its May 2016 final rule “deeming” new tobacco products (see 1605050011), it said in a recent guidance document. The agency “does not intend to take enforcement action” as long as the required information appears on the carton or other outer container or wrapper, or on a tag “otherwise firmly and permanently affixed to the small package,” FDA said. The warning label requirements take effect in August 2018.