Is anyone concerned?

[Elapid]

I have considered this before I started vaping. My take on this is that vaping E-juice from China is better than smoking tobacco from the US. I guess in one way you could consider us guinea pigs, but in the other way pioneers. What I do know is that tobacco cigarettes were going to kill me and vaping is a healthier alternative. One might kill, I doubt this, but the other will kill, I know this.

[give it all to me]

I used to work with a guy that had worked at a McDonald's processing plant. After some of the things he told me, I will never worry about what is in a Chinese product.

What'd he tell you? Should I quit eating their fries?

[Charged]

Have a look at the DIY section. You can make your own right here in the good ole USA. Tell your friends you made it yourself and they'll prolly run and hide

[cliff5550]

I use to smoke the very, very cheapest cigarettes I could find and we'd joke that the only way they could sell them that cheap was because they were made from the floor sweepings in the tobacco barn. Or worse. That, along with the arsenic and all the other carcinogens in U.S. cigs, make me feel very comfortable using my e-cig and nic juice. Bring it on. I'll take all the Chinese-made e-cigs no one wants.

[ChesterN]

No, I am not concerned. I think the Chinese manufacturers are well aware that their product will be undergoing extreme analyzation from every regulatory agency known to man.

[316lvm]

What'd he tell you? Should I quit eating their fries?

That's just frickin hysterical. Still LMAO!

Have a look at the DIY section. You can make your own right here in the good ole USA. Tell your friends you made it yourself and they'll prolly run and hide

Double whammy - fell out of the chair ROFLMAO

I use to smoke the very, very cheapest cigarettes I could find and we'd joke that the only way they could sell them that cheap was because they were made from the floor sweepings in the tobacco barn. Or worse. That, along with the arsenic and all the other carcinogens in U.S. cigs, make me feel very comfortable using my e-cig and nic juice. Bring it on. I'll take all the Chinese-made e-cigs no one wants.

Been there, done that. Pretty scary to read "Made in Russia per Philip and Morris highest standards". Yeah, right. Glow in the dark tobacco.

[Taryn]

Check out this from Leaford from V4L, he is in China and took some factory pics! Chinese e-liquid manufacturing and sanitary conditions

[tdwave]

I am sorry but i have to laugh and I am always amazed that any smoker would in fact not toke on a e-cig with the concern of it being worst for them than what they are smoking!!! A real CIGARETTE!!! COME ON!!! Just totally ignorant. No excuse for that one.

[searcher]

What'd he tell you? Should I quit eating their fries?

Don't worry and keep enjoying them. The info I got from the former employee was long long ago. They must have improved (I mean they are being watched over by the Dept of Agriculture, and we all know how reliable the feds are). I'm sure that all the stuff accidentally dropped in the grinder didn't exceed federal standards. I saw a web site once that showed how much unbelievable stuff could contaminate items from bread to burgers before they were classified as contaminated. I agree with the previous poster that the Chinese govt seems to have a better QC system. If they produce a poison (even by accident) it could mean their life.

[OutWest]

FWIW, A USDA report says that China accounts for 80% of the world's apple juice export market http://www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/fruit.pdf and according to the U.S. Apple Association, 42% of the apple juice sold in America is imported from China US Apple: Consumers - FAQs: Apple Juice Safety

Processed foods in the U.S. do not have where the ingredients come from (the main exceptions are if the entire product is made in another country or if it's a single ingredient item, such as raw apples). So, unless you avoid processed foods altogether, you're already ingesting products from China (along with products from several other countries).