Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of when the Committee on Toxicity of Food, Consumer Products and the Environment will publish its final position on the toxicological risks associated with oral nicotine pouches.

The Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) is currently reviewing the evidence on the use of oral nicotine pouches and assessing the risk to users. The COT has already published a draft statement in July 2022 and will publish a final position statement once the review is complete, in early 2023.

The draft statement is available at the following link:

https://cot.food.gov.uk/First%20draft%20statement%20on%20the%20bioavailability%20of%20nicotine%20from%20the%20use%20of%20oral%20nicotine%20pouches%20and%20assessment%20of%20the%20potential%20toxicological%20risk%20to%20users