Visit Us at Unified Wine and Grape Symposium!
If you plan to attend the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium, come visit us at the TTB booth on January 29-30! We’ll have TTB specialists on hand to answer your questions and provide on-the-spot assistance with label and permit applications. Whether you would like to check the status of your application, get an answer to inform a new label design, or just say hello, come see our team in booth 900!
Due Date for Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax is Coming Soon
 If you file Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax Returns, the due date for 2024 Q4 is Friday, January 31.
Please see our FAET page on TTB.gov to determine if you are liable for FAET and the associated tax rates.
We recommend that you file TTB excise tax returns and make payments electronically using Pay.gov.
Food and Drug Administration Notices
 TTB-regulated industries may find these notices of interest.
Color Additive Petition From Center for Science in the Public Interest, et al.; Request To Revoke Color Additive Listing for Use of FD&C Red No. 3 in Food and Ingested Drugs
SOURCE: Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 10 / Thursday, January 16, 2025
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS
ACTION: Final amendment; order.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is granting a color additive petition submitted by Center for Science in the Public Interest, et al., by repealing the color additive regulations that permit the use of FD&C Red No. 3 in foods (including dietary supplements) and in ingested drugs. The petitioners provided data demonstrating that this additive induces cancer in male rats. Therefore, FDA is revoking the authorized uses in food and ingested drugs of FD&C Red No. 3 in the color additive regulations.
DATES: This order is effective January 15, 2027 for food, and January 18, 2028 for ingested drugs. If any provisions are delayed or stayed by the filing of proper objections, FDA will publish such notification in the Federal Register. Submit either electronic or written objections and requests for a hearing on the order by February 18, 2025. See section X of the order for further information on the filing of objections.
For more information on FD&C Red No. 3, please refer to FDA’s website: FD&C Red No. 3 | FDA.
Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products
SOURCE: Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 10 / Thursday, January 16, 2025
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS
ACTION: Proposed rule.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing a tobacco product standard that would regulate nicotine yield by establishing a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products. FDA is proposing this action to reduce the addictiveness of these products, thus giving people who are addicted and wish to quit the ability to do so more easily. The proposed product standard is anticipated to benefit the population as a whole. For example, it would help to prevent people who experiment with cigarettes and cigars from developing addiction and using combusted tobacco products regularly.
DATES: Either electronic or written comments on the proposed rule must be submitted by September 15, 2025. Submit comments (including recommendations) on the collection of information under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) by September 15, 2025.
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