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Why Join the Responsible Industry Network
We have two VERY GOOD reasons why your company should not hesitate to join the Responsible Industry Network (RIN) program today.
1. "For a PMTA to be approved for a marketing order, FDA “intends to consider how an applicant will target the marketing of its new tobacco product to reach its intended consumers of legal age and to assess potential effect on nonusers. FDA will also consider how the applicant intends to minimize the extent to which youth can access the product and are exposed to its marketing.”
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2. "If the PMTA does not address youth access to the product, youth exposure to the product's labeling, advertising, marketing, and promotion, and youth initiation, such as describing how it proposes to restrict the sale or distribution of its product to limit potential youth access to the product … FDA may be unable to determine that the applicant has made a showing that permitting the marketing of the new tobacco product would be appropriate for the protection of public health.”
About The Responsible InDustry Network
With the ever-increasing use of vapor products by adult smokers looking for an alternative to combustible tobacco, the businesses that participate in SFATA’s Responsible Industry Network (RIN) are committed to doing their part in preventing underage use of vapor products in their communities. SFATA’s Responsible Industry Network Program helps to achieve this and satisfies FDA’s post-market surveillance requirement.
The goal of SFATA’s Responsible Industry Network is to provide a post-market surveillance pathway through data, training, accountability, and corrective measures for vapor manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, as well as a method for law enforcement and regulatory authorities to ensure that significantly fewer vapor products end up in youth hands.
Additionally, authorities can confiscate those products that do and levy enforcement action against the parties who are responsible, whether they are manufacturers, distributors, retailers, or straw buyers, such as family members or friends.
Retail participants in SFATA’s RIN program are committed to selling products purchased from manufacturers and distributors also participating in the program, ensuring a closed-loop supply chain.
SFATA’s RIN program also involves on-going monitoring of participants to ensure adherence to federal, state, and local regulatory statutes, as well as compliance to the program as a whole.
In short, the RIN program is designed to solve a problem – comply or die.
And that is what the RIN program does - it handles post-market reporting compliance to help your business survive.
We are working on bringing you an entirely new website exclusively devoted to the Responsible Industry Network.
While we work on that, we hope you find the information here useful.
We truly hope you will join our growing number of RIN program members today. You can do so through any of the JOIN NOW links on the website.
A Few Key Points On RIN
- SFATA strongly believes that without the Responsible Industry Network’s disciplined program, e-liquid and vapor hardware manufacturers risk the loss of FDA-issued market orders, and in turn, the forfeit of sellable products for retailers. RIN provides the solution of an airtight closed-loop distribution network. RIN manufacturers will sell to RIN distributors, who will sell to RIN retailers, who will only sell to adults.
- Every transaction will be recorded with an accompanying age-verified ID.
- Each party in the chain will have a venue to streamline their reporting requirements, easing the burden on all.
- This means only one survey per period for retailers with a single set of questions – versus being bombarded with surveys from numerous manufacturers at varied points in time, with variable survey questions and multiple deadlines.
- It means manufacturers will have a single source sending out and compiling the survey data on their behalf, and yes – it means FDA will have far less “muck” to wade through when the reports need to be filed.
- The RIN program will create a rich database that will ultimately reveal useful sales and marketing insights for participants that can show aggregate buying and selling behaviors of vapor products, data that can be useful when faced with federal and state flavor bans and taxation bills.
- SFATA has presented the RIN Program to a number of regulatory bodies and agencies and each time, it has been met with praise. Why? Because making sure vapor products stay where they belong – in the hands of adults – is the duty of a responsible vapor business and in the best interest of public health.
- Why is RIN a good idea for vapor businesses? That’s easy. Less work for you. More time to spend doing what you do best – running your business.
About SFATA
Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association (SFATA) is a nonprofit organized as a 501(c)6 under the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
SFATA's Mission
SFATA's mission is to advocate for a reasonably regulated U.S. marketplace which allows our member companies to provide smoke-free products to adult consumers that are an attractive choice, while promoting a positive public image for vapor products and educating businesses in our industry.
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