I'm not allowed to post a URL until I've made 15 posts, so I'll reproduce here the full article dated today in the Highland News. It appears to be at the heart of this problem:-
UNLICENSED nicotine refills designed to help people quit smoking but which could be fatal to young children were being sold from a stall at the Eastgate Centre in Inverness.
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Following investigations by the Highland Council Trading Standards Department into the safety of the refill cartridges for an "Electronic Cigarette" the products have now been withdrawn from the market.
The refills, which are sold under the "Mini Cigarette" or "E, Cig" brand are sold with the product.
Gordon Robb, Principal Trading Standards Officer with Highland Council said the refills were being sold from the "All Points North" stall in the Upper mall of the the Eastgate Centre.
"The owner was selling them from his stall in the market and they have now been withdrawn," said Mr Robb.
"We are dealing mainly with the producers of the refills in the Blackburn area."
Mr Robb said: "The refills contain a toxic nicotine solution and I was surprised when I got a response from the Scottish Poisons Information Bureau what a small amount of nictoine could be fatal to a child if swallowed.
"Despite peoples general recognition of nicotine as being something that is contained in cigarettes and other tobacco products, nicotines toxicity to humans is not widely understood by the public.
"On the analysis we had carried out, a single refill cartridge, which is small enough to be easily swallowed if found by a child, was found to contain many times more nicotine than would be found in a cigarette.
"The refill cartridge packaging bore none of the warnings, tactile labelling or child resistance that is legally required for such a toxic substance, making the safety risk that these products represent all the higher."
"Our general familiarity with the many reputable nicotine replacement therapy products on sale should not lead the public to make the mistake of comparing these with the dangerous products we are now highlighting. The well known brands of products designed to help smokers to give up the habit are all licensed by the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) as being safe to use. Neither the electronic cigarette nor the refill cartridges involved here however are licensed in this way and have therefore not been subjected to the same degree of formal safety assessment before being placed on the market."
During their investigations Trading Standards have identified that many more clones of this type of product are available on the internet and elsewhere in the marketplace and they have alerted their colleagues in the UK and in other European Member States, via what is known as the RAPEX (EU rapid alert system for all dangerous consumer products) system.
Mr Robb said it remained unclear whether the other products available present the same degree of safety risk as has been found in this case.
But there have been calls from elsewhere in Europe for such products in general to be more tightly regulated.
The retailer and producer of the products involved that have been on sale in Inverness and via the internet has agreed to immediately withdraw the products from sale pending the putting in place of appropriate packaging and warnings.
Consumers are advised to immediately remove the refills to a place out of the reach of children
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