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While I appreciate Oliver's posting at Confused about diacetyl? You should be | Vaping.com
and this discussion, this reminds me of the FSPTCA's nonscientific fear mongering and mandatory reporting (to the FDA, and subsequently communicated to the public) of trace levels of "Hazardous and Potentially Hazardous Constituents" (HPHCs) in cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products (which would also apply to e-cigs under FDA's proposed deeming regulation) except that tobacco prohibitionists and propagandists lobbied for those mandatory reports on HPHCs to further demonize, confuse and scare the public about the relative and comparable risks of different tobacco products.
The situation is also similar to the GMO food scares, and the demand by nonscientific Luddite opponents of GMO to either ban the sale of GMOs, or (when bans cannot be attained) to require labels for GMO foods (so GMO opponents can further confuse, scare and organize boycotts) except that in both of the these examples, vehement opponents of the products are the ones demanding labeling to further achieve their propaganda and policy goals.
Then again, to presume (without any evidence) that the mere presence of diacetyl and/or acetyl propionyl in e-liquid poses health risks for vapers, and to subsequently demand removal of or mandated labeling of those constituents in e-liquid is not much different than to presume (without any evidence) that all vaping is very hazardous, and to subsequently demand e-cigarette prohibition or to mandate fear mongering labels on all e-cigarettes (to confuse and scare consumers and the public about unproven, but potential and hypothetical risks of vaping).
Worst of all, this looks like an issue that Glantz, WHO, US DHHS, other e-cig prohibitionists and Big Tobacco companies could jump on to "divide and conquer" the vaping community and the e-liquid industry.
The burden of scientific proof is (and should be) on those who hypothesize that diacetyl and/or acetyl propionyl (or nicotine, propylene glycol or anything else) in e-liquid poses disease risk(s) to vapers.
and this discussion, this reminds me of the FSPTCA's nonscientific fear mongering and mandatory reporting (to the FDA, and subsequently communicated to the public) of trace levels of "Hazardous and Potentially Hazardous Constituents" (HPHCs) in cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products (which would also apply to e-cigs under FDA's proposed deeming regulation) except that tobacco prohibitionists and propagandists lobbied for those mandatory reports on HPHCs to further demonize, confuse and scare the public about the relative and comparable risks of different tobacco products.
The situation is also similar to the GMO food scares, and the demand by nonscientific Luddite opponents of GMO to either ban the sale of GMOs, or (when bans cannot be attained) to require labels for GMO foods (so GMO opponents can further confuse, scare and organize boycotts) except that in both of the these examples, vehement opponents of the products are the ones demanding labeling to further achieve their propaganda and policy goals.
Then again, to presume (without any evidence) that the mere presence of diacetyl and/or acetyl propionyl in e-liquid poses health risks for vapers, and to subsequently demand removal of or mandated labeling of those constituents in e-liquid is not much different than to presume (without any evidence) that all vaping is very hazardous, and to subsequently demand e-cigarette prohibition or to mandate fear mongering labels on all e-cigarettes (to confuse and scare consumers and the public about unproven, but potential and hypothetical risks of vaping).
Worst of all, this looks like an issue that Glantz, WHO, US DHHS, other e-cig prohibitionists and Big Tobacco companies could jump on to "divide and conquer" the vaping community and the e-liquid industry.
The burden of scientific proof is (and should be) on those who hypothesize that diacetyl and/or acetyl propionyl (or nicotine, propylene glycol or anything else) in e-liquid poses disease risk(s) to vapers.