Are you using a tobacco product that you believe is defective or is causing an unexpected health problem?
Are you using a tobacco product that has a strange taste or smell?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to hear from you and has a new online tool you can use to report your problem.
Classic Blue cigarettes.
The
Department of Health and Human Services' Safety Reporting Portal (SRP)
has been revised to add a new category for tobacco products. This update
provides a standardized way for consumers and health care professionals
to let FDA know when they suspect that there is an unexpected health or
safety issue with a specific tobacco product.
Until now,
consumers reported problems with tobacco products to FDA through
MedWatch, the FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting
Program, a system that does not ask questions specific to tobacco
products.
"There is no known safe tobacco product, but FDA can
play a role in helping prevent certain unexpected health consequences
from tobacco products, such as those that occur from defective tobacco
products, or health or safety problems beyond those normally associated
with tobacco product use," says Ii-Lun Chen, M.D., medical branch chief
in the Office of Science at FDA's Center for Tobacco Products.
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