Border Security Alliance Responds to New FDA Action Against Illegal, Disposable Vape Retailers

Phoenix, AZ - Border Security Alliance President Jobe Dickinson issued the following statement on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) latest “inspection blitz” targeting an additional 189 retailers selling illegal, foreign-made, disposable vaping products in kid-friendly flavors, specifically Elf Bar and Esco Bars. The announcement comes as new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention once again confirms that illegal, disposable vapes in kid-enticing flavors are fueling the youth vaping epidemic. A separate FDA analysis found that Elf Bar is responsible for calls to the poison control center occurring among children younger than five years old.

“Parents should be terrified by new data out from the FDA and CDC today,” said Border Security Alliance President Jobe Dickinson. “We have repeatedly warned that kids are the most vulnerable to illegal, disposable, flavored vapes that are pouring in from China and over our borders. We know now that children five-years-old and younger are coming into contact with Elf Bars. With evidence that illegal, disposable vapes can be laced with deadly fentanyl, it is only a matter of time before tragedy strikes. The FDA is moving in the right direction by cracking down on retailers, but we need more than warning letters. The FDA must be unrelentingly aggressive in ripping these dangerous, illegal, youth-enticing vape products off store shelves and holding manufacturers, retailers, and distributors accountable. They are out of excuses.”