FDA has announced proposed product standards that would prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and prohibit all characterizing flavors other than tobacco in cigars.
A federal judge ruled that the FDA lacks the statutory authority to regulate laboratory developed tests, finding squarely in favor of plaintiffs in the consolidated lawsuits brought by American Clinical Laboratories Association, Association for Molecular Pathology, and others. ASCP submitted an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs.
