Star asks FDA approval for modified-risk tobacco product

(Tobacco Reporter) Star Scientific Inc. has filed an application with the Food & Drug Administration for approval to market Stonewall-BDL as a “modified risk tobacco product” under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009. ... Stonewall-BDL, like Ariva-BDL, is a dissolvable tobacco lozenge with wintergreen flavoring. The product is made with flue-cured tobacco that contains levels of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) that are below detectable limits by most current standards of measure. Continued

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