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FDA — Menthol Cigarette Background Paper: Interim Response, December 27, 2012

December 27, 2012

Mr. Ronald S. Milstein

Senior Vice President
Legal and External Affairs
General Counsel and Secretary
Lorillard, Inc.
714 Green Valley Road
Greensboro, North Carolina 27408

Dear Mr. Milstein

Your January 4, 2012 appeal and request for reconsideration of the Center for Tobacco Products’ December 2, 2011 response to your Data Quality Act request for correction is under review. FDA now estimates that a response to this appeal and request for reconsideration will be sent to you by February 26, 2013. 

Sincerely,

/s/ 

Les Weinstein, Ombudsman
Food and Drug Administration
Center for Tobacco Products
9200 Corporate Boulevard
Rockville, MD 20850-3229

Last Revised:  12/31/12