The Utah Department of Health announced Friday that it won’t fight a judge’s decision to nix part of the group’s emergency rules restricting what businesses can sell flavored e-cigarette products.
Instead, the department said it has already started the process of creating a replacement administrative rule that could be unveiled before the end of the year. Unlike the emergency rules announced last month, which limited purchases of flavored vape products to only specialty tobacco stores, this mandate would follow the regular rule-making process.
The department said it would solicit stakeholders before drafting the rule, and the public could comment on it once released.