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Unauthorized vapes continue to enter US despite FDA rules

(28 Jun 2023) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4441909 RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 18 September 2019 1. Couple vaping HEADLINE: Unauthorized vapes continue to enter US despite FDA rules ASSOCIATED PRESS Pinecrest, Florida - 27 June 2023 2. STILL, various e-cigarette products ANNOTATION: The AP found that the FDA has been unable to keep up with a flood of illegal disposable e-cigarettes from China. ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 1 September 2019 3. Woman walking and vaping ASSOCIATED PRESS Pinecrest, Florida - 27 June 2023 4. Various STILLS, vaping products on shelves 5. STILL, Close up on e-cigarette flavor box ANNOTATION: Their influx has forced the agency to try to eliminate thousands of illegal products sold by under-the-radar importers and distributors. ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 27 June 2023 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Meredith Berkman, Parents Against Vaping E-Cigs: "Every single device, unless it has been authorized by the FDA and only a handful have been and none of them flavored. So, any flavored e-cigarette that you see in a vape shop or online or at a gas station, that is not a that is not a regulated product." ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 1 September 2019 7. Man vaping ANNOTATION: The increase has been mostly driven by Chinese-manufactured disposables, with more than 5,800 disposables currently being sold in the U.S. ASSOCIATED PRESS Scarsdale, New York - 21 May 2018 8. Woman vaping ASSOCIATED PRESS Pinecrest, Florida - 27 June 2023 9. STILL, Close up of Esco Bars ASSOCIATED PRESS Stanford, California - 27 June 2023 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Meredith Berkman, Parents Against Vaping E-Cigs "Those flavored products like Elf Bar that are flooding the market from China. They're illegal to sell in China. And that's because the Chinese government made it very clear they wanted to protect Chinese kids from nicotine addiction. So those brands like Elfbar are basically, you know, exploited, have exploited our own regulatory loopholes and postponements and failures." ASSOCIATED PRESS Pinecrest, Florida - 27 June 2023 11. STILL, Close up of BC5000 products ANNOTATION: The FDA banned fruity flavors from reusable vaping systems like Juul in January 2020, amid a surge in youth vaping. ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 1 September 2019 12. Man vaping ANNOTATION: But the regulation specifically exempted disposable e-cigarettes, leading to the explosion in new products on the market today. ASSOCIATED PRESS Pinecrest, Florida - 27 June 2023 13. STILL, Disposable pod flavor list ASSOCIATED PRESS Stanford, California - 27 June 2023 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert K. Jackler, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine: "The FDA has just not been able to grapple the enforcement of keeping these out of the American market. And many of these products come in gummy bear and chocolate and butter rum flavors that we know to be highly appealing to nonsmoking teenagers. And they have very high nicotine levels and therefore apparently addictive. ASSOCIATED PRESS Pinecrest, Florida - 27 June 2023 15. STILL, Close up of Elfbar in person’s hand STORYLINE: The number of different electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to over 9,000 since 2020, driven almost entirely by a wave of unauthorized disposable vapes from China, according to tightly controlled sales data obtained by The Associated Press. The surge stands in stark contrast to regulators’ own figures, which tout the rejection of some 99% of company requests to sell new e-cigarettes while authorizing only a few meant for adult smokers. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...