Dekang is the most widely re branded / re formulated / counterfeit e liquid even before the genius buyout, I have a close friend who has a PhD in biochemistry so lets just say my testing comes cheap, I am not here to make false accusations against any one brand / company just my opinion.I have no affiliation with any business in the industry nor would I discuss in depth my business, I am an avid traveler and have visited several juice manufactures with my family and friends, I'm an x smoker just like you, who happens to be very passionate about my health and the future of the vaping industry.
I am aware that Dekang liquids are counterfeited and re-branded. As a matter of fact I knew first hand of a B&M in NYC that re-branded Dekang and sold it as their own with a 500% mark-up. But you didn't issue a counterfeit warning, you issued a diketones warning. And I found it odd since you were defending in another thread, Muffin Man, a vendor that gave a deceptive response to a customer inquiry re diketones in their juice, and was tested positive in Vaporshark testing. You have also stated and/or implied in the past that diketones are no worst than Butyric Acid which some vendors are using as a replacement in their recipes which call for dairy or creamy ingredients and even questioned Dr. Kistler about it in another thread. You didn't offer a counterpoint to his claim that tests haven't showed it as troublesome as diketones, but yet you continued in other threads with the implication that diketones are no more or less harmful than other chemicals in eliquid.
So yes, I do find it peculiar that you are issuing a diketones warning against a vendor that hasn't tested positive in any test publicly, and imply that your biochemist friend has tested, but you won't go into any specifics. And at the same time you claim that you have nothing against any specific vendor !
I will take your word that you aren't affiliated with any vendor or vaping association, at face value, and obviously you don't need to divulge your business if it's not vaping related. It's just that I thought that it was implied that you were involved in a vaping related business based on your previous posts, and I found your posts in this thread uncharacteristic and kind of strange to say the least.