Mountains of paperwork, clinical trials, endless frustration and most of all, heartbreak. This describes the onerous Premarket Tobacco Application process (or PMTA) now thrust upon the vaping industry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: it could destroy vaping as we know it.

In this RegWatch preview regulatory lawyer and FDA compliance expert, Deanna Clark-Esposito shares insight into the PMTA process and talk through some of the challenges to surviving the PMTA deadline.

**Full-length interview out next episode**

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Produced by: Brent Stafford

Released: August 1, 2019