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# Guidance on Tobacco Product Master Files
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/guidance-on-tobacco-product-master-files/
- Published: 2016-05-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T21:01:05.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: FDA Policy/General, #legacy-id-D5135625

*Federal Register* Notice: FDA is making available a guidance for industry entitled *Tobacco Product Master Files.* It provides recommendations to industry on tobacco product master files (TPMF), which are voluntary submissions used to permit the person that owns the TPMF to authorize other parties to rely on information in the TPMF to support a submission to FDA without the TPMF owner having to disclose that information to the authorized parties. Parties that obtain a right of reference from a TPMF owner may reference information in a TPMF that the TPMF owner does not want to make public, but that the other party would otherwise need to develop on its own to make a complete submission to FDA. To download this guidance, click [here](http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/RulesRegulationsGuidance/ucm499345.htm?ref=fdaweb.com). To view this notice, click [here.](https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-05-10/pdf/2016-10690.pdf?ref=fdaweb.com)