Compliance, both sides of it.

Inside the facility

Photographs from our manufacturing partner's plant in Faridabad. The quality-control lab is where the certificate of analysis for your lot comes from.

How the product is made

• Licensed under India's Drugs and Cosmetics Act. Our manufacturing partner in Faridabad, Haryana holds a Form 25 drug manufacturing licence from the Food & Drugs Administration, Haryana — licence MLF252024HR000007, issued 25 October 2024 and valid to 24 October 2029. It covers nicotine pouches from 3 to 30 mg and caffeine pouches at 25 and 100 mg. It is a drug-licensed facility, not a food factory. We will send you the licence rather than ask you to take our word for it.
• Pharmaceutical-grade nicotine. Pharmaceutical specification throughout — nicotine, base, sweeteners and flavors. The certificate of analysis for your lot is the document that proves it, and you can have it.
• In-house lab on every batch. Nicotine concentration, purity and microbiological safety tested before anything ships.
• Traceable batches. Documented processes and audit-ready records on every production run.
• Documented licensing. Form 25 drug manufacturing licence issued 25 October 2024 and valid to 24 October 2029, plus Tobacco Board of India exporter registration. We will send both on request rather than describe them.

Documentation you can have

Certificate of Analysis for the specific lot you receive, ingredient declarations and batch records — on request, and increasingly worth having because chain retailers ask for it.

The facility also holds the following. We will send the PDFs rather than ask you to take our word for it.

Scope on the ISO and WHO-GMP certificates covers flavoured nicotine pouches, caffeine pouches, CBD pouches, nootropic pouches, snus pouches and gummy dietary supplements. These are third-party certifications from private certification bodies; they are not accredited by UKAS, and they are not FDA registration or cGMP. We would rather name the issuer than let the initials do work they haven't earned.

What's already on the can

The FDA-mandated warning — nicotine is an addictive chemical — and the 21+ age statement. Nothing needs relabeling before it goes on your shelf.

Where we will not ship

Re-verified October 2026 against the states' own sources — and three states came off this list, because they should never have been on it.

Flavoured nicotine pouches cannot be sold at retail in California and Massachusetts. Both states write their flavour bans around nicotine rather than tobacco leaf, so pouches are caught. California's Attorney General applied the ban to pouches directly in a November 2024 determination, and AB 3218 treats a cooling sensation as a characterising flavour, which takes in mint and menthol. Massachusetts confines flavoured sales to licensed smoking bars.

California has a second gate on top of that. The state now runs an Unflavored Tobacco List, and a covered product may not be sold unless its manufacturer has certified it onto that list — unlisted product is subject to seizure. Even an unflavoured SKU has to be listed first.

Louisiana is a different kind of restriction. It operates a mandatory product directory through the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control, and only listed product may be sold. There is a real unresolved conflict in how that applies to us: the directory definition excludes tobacco products, while a Louisiana revenue ruling treats a pouch made with tobacco-extracted nicotine as being made of tobacco. So our product may sit outside the directory, or inside it, and we have not found official guidance that settles it. We will say that plainly rather than guess — confirm with ATC before you stock Louisiana.

Open, but price these in first: Washington taxes nicotine products at 95%; Minnesota at 95% with a $3.04 per-can floor; Rhode Island 80%; Texas, settled by the Supreme Court of Texas in May 2026, at $1.22 an ounce with a $1.46 minimum per can — so a standard can pays $1.46; Illinois 45%; the District of Columbia 64%; Colorado 56%; Nebraska and Louisiana 20%; Indiana $0.50 an ounce; Utah $1.00 a can from July 2026; Oregon $0.65 a can. Roughly 30 states charge nothing at all. There is no federal excise tax on nicotine pouches.

Local rules worth knowing, with the detail that usually gets lost: Denver bans flavoured nicotine products outright and it does cover pouches, in force since January 2026. Minneapolis restricts flavoured sales to tobacco shops but carves out menthol, mint and wintergreen, so most of our range is unaffected. Chicago's citywide flavour ban is vape-only and does not catch a pouch, though a separate ordinance bars flavoured tobacco sales within 500 feet of a secondary school. Columbus we will not characterise either way: the question of whether its ordinance or state preemption governs is before the Ohio Supreme Court and undecided.

CAFUEL caffeine pouches contain no nicotine, are not tobacco products, and fall outside all of the above — including California and Massachusetts.

Who carries what

Ours, as the shipper. Under 15 U.S.C. § 376, anyone who ships smokeless tobacco in interstate commerce for profit has to register with the US Attorney General and with the tobacco tax administrator of the destination state, and file a monthly report of every shipment by the tenth of the following month. The 2010 amendments removed the old exemption for shipments to licensed distributors, so business-to-business shipments are covered too — being a licensed buyer does not take a shipment outside the Act.

One honest caveat on that: whether the Act's “smokeless tobacco” definition reaches a tobacco-free pouch is genuinely unsettled, and no federal agency has resolved it. A pouch contains tobacco-derived nicotine but no tobacco material. We are not going to lean on that ambiguity, because every state authority that has looked at the analogous tax question — Texas, Louisiana — has decided it against the seller.

Yours, as the buyer.

• Retail, distributor or tobacco licensing in every state you operate in.
• State excise tax in most states — registration, calculation and filing. Most states levy it on the distributor or first owner inside the state. Not all: Indiana makes a remote seller liable where no Indiana distributor has collected it, which puts that one on us.
• Age verification at point of sale under federal Tobacco 21.
• Your own state's product directory where one exists, and keeping up when the list changes.

Ours to check before we ship. Your licence, and whether your state is one we can lawfully ship into. We refuse orders we shouldn't fill — that is not a courtesy, it is the part of this that protects both of us.

Federal premarket obligations

Nicotine pouches are regulated as tobacco products by the US FDA, and premarket authorization obligations attach to the product owner and importer. If you are buying finished stock to resell, your position differs from someone importing under their own brand — and that difference is exactly the sort of thing to put in front of a US regulatory attorney rather than take from a supplier's website.

What we won't claim

We are not FDA-registered. We do not hold cGMP certification. We do not own the factory — it is a manufacturing partner, and anyone telling you their supplier owns the plant should be asked for the deed. What we do have is a state drug manufacturing licence in Haryana and a Tobacco Board of India exporter registration, both documents we can send you. Those are real and verifiable; they are not FDA registration, not cGMP, and not CDSCO central approval, and we are not going to let those get blurred together. If a supplier's claims get vaguer the harder you push, that is the answer.

Nicotine-free

CAFUEL caffeine pouches contain no nicotine, are not tobacco products, and carry no federal age restriction or premarket obligation.