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tobaccoasia 19 NTRM? NDTP? SORT IT OUT ! Do you have Non Tobacco Related Material or Non Desired Tobacco Products in your tobacco product stream? Let us help you sort them out. Find out more on www.tomra.com/tobacco Nahuan Photo fore 2018. Health warning labels similar to the first category, and no free samples either. - products that are marketed after August 8, 2016 need to apply for FDA approval. The consequences It is estimated that 60% of all cigars currently sold in the US (according to FDA) are grandfathered in. However, every change in blend, size, and packing design could potentially require new ap- plications, new paperwork, and new fees. Scott Drenkard, a writer for the Tax Foun- dation, reported that "by FDA's own appraisal, their new regulations would wipe out somewhere between 10 and 50% of these products as it will not be cost effective to put many of the products through review". It is hard to predict the exact cost of applica- tions but FDA confirmed that all required applica- tions could "cost hundreds of thousands of dollars" per application. While large-scale cigar manufactur- ers may be able to adapt to the regulation, smaller Extract from FDA's website businesses that have launched their own manufac- turing company may struggle to keep afloat. At the moment, the known cost is the one re- quired by the testing procedure: in order to obtain approval, each product will have to go through FDA proposes health warning labels covering 30% of the surface of the two main panels of cigar boxes