Possible Juul link to seizures kicks off FDA investigation
An ongoing Food and Drug Administration investigation into a possible link between seizures and e-cigarette use was kicked off by three cases allegedly involving Juul use, Bloomberg reported today.
Bloomberg obtained communications between FDA officials in mid-October 2018, which detailed the three cases. The FDA found “no proof of causality, but at a minimum, an association with Juul,” Mitch Zeller, the director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, wrote to Scott Gottlieb, the FDA commissioner at the time. In an interview, Zeller said that the FDA had not been able to confirm that Juul use was associated with the seizures in two of the three initially reported...