One week to go - and the MHRA cancel!

One week to go to the MHRA meeting. Plane tickets have been bought. Consultants, scientists and experts due to fly in from Canada, NJOY’s CEO Jack Leadbetter from America – and what do the MHRA do?

Postpone the meeting!

Is the MHRA meeting a con, with a decision already taken to ban a device which scientists say is more than 99% safer than cigarettes?

This is what we have seen so far:

• a suggested two weeks to allow a product to be registered as a medicine with an “MA” licence (usually two years!)
• emails telling interested people that the MHRA consultation committee doesn’t have time to answer questions
• refusal to answer questions even after freedom of information requests
• refusal to allow world experts on tobacco harm reduction to attend the meeting
• failure to provide an agenda, despite requests, even one week before the meeting
• postponing a meeting with less than a week’s notice, despite knowing that extremely busy people are flying in from all over the world to attend the meeting
• suggested two hours for a meeting to decide the fate of people’s lives and livelihoods – and whether thousands of people in the UK will return to cigarettes

Here is the reaction from one industry Company Director who emailed us in disgust:

“Not surprised the country is in such a state with these morons running it. Less than a weeks notice??, and the deadline only moved one day? what the hell is going on.”

Tags: electronic cigarette, mhra

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