Anne Schuchat, Deputy Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), appeared on a C-SPAN program and took questions from callers for a segment focusing on the rise of vaping-related injuries. One caller expressed frustration that there are vaping products on the market that entirely lack labels. “I do think that labeling and information can help people know what they’re getting and then the systems that are there to enforce that the product is what it says it is can also help the consumer,” Schuchat said in response to the caller, seemingly endorsing some kind of regulatory scheme for cannabis.
“As the [Food and Drug Administration] has taken on regulatory authority for tobacco and has now got plans around the e-cigarette regulatory authority, the ingredient information will need to be provided,” she said. “The THC right now—pretty much the marijuana market, cannabis products—are at this point regulated at the state level, and many of those state regulations will talk about what needs to be done in terms of the testing and the quality control.”
“But you’re right that right now, the consumer just doesn’t know what they’re getting,” she said. “With e-cigarettes, you don’t really know what all the compounds are that are in there intentionally, and then of course people who are altering or adulterating these products, they’re not labeling what they’re adulterating them with.”
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