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Zeller also said in a blog post on the agency's website that the review decisions do not reflect whether the FDA "considers a product to be safe." Lorillard, the nation's third-biggest tobacco company, is pleased with the FDA's actions and believes the agency has "carried out is evaluation process in a deliberate manner reflecting sound science," CEO Murray Kessler said in a statement. Lorillard is based in Greensboro, N.C. Kessler had previously criticized the agency's backlog, saying it wasn't "exercising common sense." "These are cigarettes. They haven't changed in 50 years. They've had the most minor changes," Kessler had said in an interview with the AP. "I don't think the spirit of the law ever envisioned this type of cumbersome scrutiny."
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