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 [...]