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Welcome to our Tobacco Scientific & Regulatory Affairs web site!  We are glad that you are visiting with us.  This website is still under construction as we include new developments in governmental regulation of tobacco products, particularly, the FDA regulation of tobacco products here in the United States.  So, please be patient with us as we add new materials to our web site as they become available.  If you are looking for information you cannot find on our website, please call us; and we will see if we can obtain it and post it on this site so that it will be available to all interested parties.

If you are a manufacturer of tobacco products that will be subject to FDA regulation or a supplier to one of those manufacturers, please see our special web page on FDA regulation of tobacco products.  Unlike other consultants who think that they can do tobacco without any prior experience, our consultants have been in the industry for decades.  We know and appreciate the steps your company takes to ensure quality tobacco products. 

In March 2010, Dr. Lauterbach was appointed as the Representative for the Interest of Small Business Tobacco Manufacturing Industry on the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  Since then, the FDA has required the tobacco product manufacturers to file 905(j) Substantial Equivalence Reports showing substantial equivalence to a product made before February 15, 2007.  The FDA has also stated that they are going to regulate cigars.  The FDA have started visiting factories to confirm that manufacturers are producing what matches on their 905(j) Reports.