22nd Century Files Modified Risk Tobacco Product Application with the FDA for World’s Lowest Nicotine Tobacco Cigarettes
22nd Century Group, Inc. (NYSE MKT: XXII), a plant biotechnology company that is a leader in tobacco harm reduction, announced today that on December 31, 2015, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Goodrich Tobacco Company, submitted a Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking a reduced exposure order so that 22nd Century’s “BRAND A” Very Low Nicotine (VLN) cigarettes may be introduced into commerce in the United States. The application to the FDA requests that BRAND A packaging and marketing be allowed to disclose to consumers that the Company’s proprietary Very Low Nicotine cigarettes reduce smokers’ exposure to nicotine. BRAN...
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