Micah L Berman, M Justin Byron, Natalie Hemmerich, Eric N Lindblom, Allison J Lazard, Ellen Peters, Noel T Brewer
The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA) requires tobacco companies to disclose information about the harmful chemicals in their products to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The law requires the FDA, in turn, to communicate this information to the public "in a format that is understandable and not misleading to a lay person." But how should the FDA comply with this requirement? What does it mean for information about complex chemicals to be "understandable and not misleading to a lay person"? These questions are not easy ones to answer...
2017: Food and Drug Law Journal