orville99 - Tho the things you cover are mostly true, I question if the FDA should be the ones covering e-cigs.
Terminology, don't see how they should be involved as long as the juice dealers tell you when ordering what the strenght is/you select. Currently all the juices I have show the nicotine content on the bottle. True or not, I don't know but some do affect me as if they are stronger.
Recognize that the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act has been in existence since the mid-1960's and established national standards for labeling - standards which have been incorporated into all 50 states as statutory law. If the bottles do not properly identify the contents (and a generic "high" doesn't meet any recognized code), they do not meet the legal requirements codified and applied consistently across industry for those 40+years. Quite simply, not labeling bottles properly is a violation of both federal, state, and interstate commerce laws.
PG/vg - some sites show it, most don't and most of my bottles do not show the mix. Child proof, most are not, but they all have the little dripper tops. Those may keep the kiddies from getting too much juice at a time, but take a look around yourself and you will see alot of things that kids should not be able to get into. Again, since the Tylenol tragedy, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the FDA have made child-proof enclosures for all pharma products mandatory. Like it or not, nicotine is a classified pharma, so not bottling properly is a violation of law.
Where the hardware/parts are from, what difference does it make if it is made in China, England or the US. The chargers are only labeled to show input/out and made for products other that e-cigs. Would it be nice to have everything labeled, yes. But this has no bearing on what the FDA should be able to control.
FCC and FTC Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission regulations have required this declaration on all products sold in the U.S. since the mid-1970's - again a violation of both federal and state law.
The juice PG/VG is most likly fda approved - for things other that e-cigs. Flavors, they maybe already approved, the ones I found say they are, but I have no way of knowing for sure they all are. Same thing goes for the bread, butter and other things I eat.
As separate chemicals that's true, but when they're incorporated into anything that's used in or on the body, they have to be cleared by the FDA
Copy rights, that for lawsuits to settle, not the FDA.
True, but also clear violation of federal and state law.
There is only one thing that the FDA should be looking at and that is the nicotine. But the juice is not being sold to eat, drink, or as a skin treatment. It is being taken "in vivo", which puts it squarely under the FDA's purvue.
The one thing that may come about, the FDA would not have any standing if our juice was sold without nicotine, dealers(hate using that word) could then sell us nicotine in seperate bottles and the whole thing should go away.......
