The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have told us in an email that they have no response to make to withering criticism by the Royal Policy Committee (RPC). Last month the RPC, which was set up to improve policy making in the UK, strongly criticised the MHRA’s attempt to ban the electronic cigarette [...]

The UK Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) has issued a withering criticism of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)’s consultation letter calling for the regulation of electronic cigarettes as a medicine, pointing out out that there is insufficient evidence that the electronic cigarette poses a risk to public health. The MHRA, while acknowledging the [...]

The MHRA has set a new date for the consultation meeting on the electronic cigaratte. The date is now June the 4th. The date set, unfortunately, is currently one day after the end of the consultation period on whether to make the electronic cigarette a medicine!

Is the MHRA deliberately messing electronic cigarette companies around?

New article on The Smoker’s Angel Magazine: A certain feeling of smugness and an attitude of lethargy had settled on UK e-cigarette companies and e-cigarette users – or vapers – in the UK. While the Americans battled the public health groups, manipulation of scientific studies, local state governments and the FDA, the much smaller UK [...]

An excellent video by Kate translating the MHRA’s letter! Please share and embed – we need to spread the word!

MHRA/E Cigarette Update We recently spoke to the MHRA on the topic of electronic cigarettes. It was hard to get much feedback, especially after we told them we were recording the call, as they simply repeated that we should put our comments in writing. However, one of the most interesting points was that the MHRA [...]