FDA Launches Searchable Tobacco Products Database

FDA launched the Searchable Tobacco Products Database, a new user-friendly list of tobacco products—including e-cigarettes—that may be legally marketed in the United States. The database is designed to serve the public—especially retailers—by providing this key information in a single location, with easy-to-use search capabilities. The database, which can be accessed at www.fda.gov/searchtobacco, will be updated on a monthly basis.

Within the database, FDA provides information on three categories of products:

1) new tobacco products that received marketing authorization through one of FDA’s three pathways to market a new tobacco product;

2) pre-existing tobacco products established through a voluntary determination program (commercially marketed as of Feb. 15, 2007); and

[The above was pulled from the Center for Tobacco Products' GovDelivery email from March 28, 2024.]