Turns out, most e-cigarette labels wrong about nicotine content

[5150sick]

http://www.business-standard.com/ar...ng-about-nicotine-content-116072500773_1.html

Researchers at North Dakota State University, Fargo, found that 51 percent of labels on e-cigarette liquid nicotine containers from 16 North Dakota stores don't accurately reflect the levels of nicotine found in the products. In one instance, actual nicotine levels were 172 percent higher than labeled. The majority of e-cigarette liquid containers also did not provide child-resistant packaging.


The study examined products purchased from North Dakota retail stores selling e-cigarettes, but not required to have a tobacco retail license. The research team noted that 23 e-liquid containers claimed to have no nicotine, but 43 percent did, in fact, contain nicotine. Levels of nicotine in those e-cigs averaged 0.19 mg/mL, with the highest level found at 0.48 mg/mL.

Vendors take a long fucking look:

0.48 mg/ml? That's fucking .5mg nic in ZERO Nic Eliquid!!!

Vendors, How the fuck do you expect the FDA and average Americans to take this industry seriously when over HALF of the time you can not properly apply MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH when mixing your shit? - 5150

 

[Rossum]

0.48 mg/ml? That's fucking 5mg nic in ZERO Nic Eliquid!!!

No. That's 0.5mg, not 5. Personally, I'd call that close enough to 0 for all practical purposes, but it obviously shouldn't be there. My guess is it got there by re-using some mixing implement without properly washing it.

 

[5150sick]

No. That's 0.5mg, not 5. Personally, I'd call that close enough to 0 for all practical purposes, but it obviously shouldn't be there. My guess is it got there by re-using some mixing implement without properly washing it.

in our eyes the dipshit mixer should have mixed the zero nic first.
they should mix all in zero nic then nic the juice after the customer asks for a nic level.

in the eyes of the FDA the zero nic laced with nicotine represents "Big Vapor" trying to hook a new generation of nicotine addicts through deception which comes right out of the "Big Tobacco Playbook"

 

[Time]

Yup. Cross contamination.

 

[RatRacer]

C'mon now. North Dakota, really? That mecca?
Samples from 16 local North Dakota stores does not an entire market snapshot make. Plus no qualifier if the samples were locally mixed, or nationally distributed popular premixes. It's still not right, but could be illuminating, not that we need that exposure.

 

[gingerbread]

The fact that the study was published in a nursing journal rather than a medical one tells us a lot about the quality of the study.