American Academy of Pediatrics et al v. United States Food and Drug Administration

  1. March 06, 2019

    FDA Must Redesign Tobacco Warnings By March 2020

    A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to finalize a congressionally mandated new rule to create graphic, full-color tobacco warning labels by March 2020, more than a year earlier than the deadline the agency had proposed.

  2. October 05, 2018

    Tobacco Warning Labels Ready By 2021 At Earliest, FDA Says

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in court documents Friday the earliest it can finish revamping tobacco warning labels is summer 2021, explaining the government can't rush building an arsenal of research and public input on graphic, full-color warnings that Big Tobacco already once derailed.

  3. September 05, 2018

    FDA Ordered To Finish Overdue Graphics For Tobacco Labels

    A federal judge in Massachusetts ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday to finish designing full-color, graphic warning labels that were due seven years ago under a law mandating the ugly imagery of tobacco's health consequences be placed on cigarette packs and advertisements.

  4. October 04, 2016

    FDA Moving Too Slowly On Cigarette Label Revamp, Suit Says

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is four years behind on complying with a Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act requirement to make cigarette warning labels more graphic, the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and a pediatricians group told a Massachusetts federal court Tuesday.

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