Breaking News | FDA Adds on! Plus Nicotine Pouches to PMTA-Authorized List

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Dec.20.2025
 Breaking News | FDA Adds on! Plus Nicotine Pouches to PMTA-Authorized List
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added ON! Plus nicotine pouch products to its list of authorized products, disclosing that the brand has received Marketing Granted Orders (MGO) through the Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) pathway. The update makes on! Plus the second nicotine pouch brand authorized via PMTA, following ZYN. As of publication, the FDA had not issued a separate press release on the decision.

Update: 

 

Following publication, the FDA issued an official press release confirming that six on! PLUS nicotine pouch products had received Marketing Granted Orders (MGO) through the PMTA pathway. The announcement states that the authorizations were completed under the agency’s nicotine pouch review pilot program and were finalized in record time. A screenshot of the FDA press release page is included below.

 

 Breaking News | FDA Adds on! Plus Nicotine Pouches to PMTA-Authorized List
Image source:FDA

 


 

Key Points:

 

  • The FDA has added on! Plus nicotine pouches to its list of PMTA-authorized products.
  • on! Plus is the second nicotine pouch brand to receive a Marketing Granted Order (MGO), after ZYN.
  • The authorization was disclosed through an update to the FDA’s website; no separate press release had been issued as of publication.

 


 

2Firsts ,December 19, 2025,The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its online list of nicotine pouch products authorized by the agency, disclosing that on! Plus nicotine pouches have received Marketing Granted Orders (MGO) via the Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) pathway—allowing the products to be legally marketed in the United States.

 

 Breaking News | FDA Adds on! Plus Nicotine Pouches to PMTA-Authorized List
The FDA’s “Nicotine Pouch Products Authorized by the FDA” webpage, showing content current as of December 19, 2025.|source:FDA

 

The update makes on! Plus the second nicotine pouch brand authorized via PMTA, alongside Swedish Match’s ZYN. 

 

As of publication, the FDA had not issued a separate press release on the decision, disclosing the authorization instead through an update to its list of authorized nicotine pouch products.

 

 Breaking News | FDA Adds on! Plus Nicotine Pouches to PMTA-Authorized List
Altria shared the news on its official LinkedIn account.|Altria@Linkedin

 

What’s Authorized (FDA List)

 

According to the FDA’s “Nicotine Pouch Products Authorized by the FDA” page, the authorized on! Plus SKUs include:

 

on! PLUS nicotine pouches 6 mg Mint

on! PLUS nicotine pouches 9 mg Mint

on! PLUS nicotine pouches 6 mg Tobacco

on! PLUS nicotine pouches 9 mg Tobacco

on! PLUS nicotine pouches 6 mg Wintergreen

on! PLUS nicotine pouches 9 mg Wintergreen

 

These additions appear on the same FDA-authorized list that includes multiple ZYN nicotine pouch products previously granted marketing orders through PMTA.


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