FDA Authorizes Marketing of IQOS Tobacco Heating System with `Reduced Exposure` Information
(WorldNews Health)

SILVER SPRING, Md., July 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the marketing of Philip Morris Products S.A.`s `IQOS Tobacco Heating System` as modified risk tobacco products (MRTPs). This marks the second set of products ever to be authorized as MRTPs and the first tobacco products to receive `exposure modification` orders, which permits the marketing of a product as containing a reduced level of or presenting a reduced exposure to a substance or as being free of a substance when the issuance of the order is expected to benefit the health of the population. Importantly, the authorization for these products requires the company to conduct postmarket...