The federal agency proposed the ban in October 2023 and scheduled its implementation for April 2024. The FDA's proposed rule ...
A proposal to ban formaldehyde in hair-straightening products that was scheduled to take place in April has not been released by the Food and Drug Administration, disregarding the agency’s own ...
The delay is another setback for the FDA, which predicted it would prevent hundreds of thousands of smoking-related deaths ...
It is unclear why the FDA has not released its proposed ban. The agency has not responded to requests for comment by NBC News. In 2022, a decadeslong study by the National Institutes of Health ...
Richardson noted that the ban is supported by groups including the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus. Previous FDA efforts on menthol have been derailed by tobacco industry pushback or ...
A coalition of civil rights and medical organizations said they are suing the FDA because it has missed its own deadline to ban menthol cigarettes. WASHINGTON — For the second time in recent ...