Certified, shmertified, emonty. What exactly does that mean in your experience? Certified by whom to do what?
Kurt is right to be especially PO'd about the letter saying all is well. Especially if Gourmet Vapor IS BoxElder etc. But I'm with some of the other voices here. This is either 1) an incompetent lab tech making mistakes or 2) bad compounding or labeling at their upstream source. Of course there's an upstream source, I don't think they're out there milking tobacco plants in the Utah desert. The fact that samples are coming in all over the map is even more disturbing, some high, other low. And even that doesn't answer the question as to where the problem lies. In any case, it's not the end of the world. Not very likely anyone would die at 2.7 times nominal level.
I'd like to point out that this is just the tip of the iceberg, if you want to go catastrophist. When you consider there are many juice vendors selling sweet juice flavored with what is known to be a highly toxic flavoring family, namely buttery diketones like acetylpropionyl, diacetyl and others, and many vapers STILL arguing that it can't be THAT toxic, since they are still alive, or defective atomizers with glowing coil loops breaking down VG, it's pretty clear this is only a drop in the proverbial bucket. If you want to go paranoid, there's no end to it.
I think we need to calm down and try to stick to the issues. I for one would like BE/Gourmet vapor to fully disclose exactly how this happened, on which lots/shipments and what they are doing to correct it.
sigh back to trying more vendors... with a LOT more caution, after reading through all of this. Never messed with DIY stuff and don't intend to but if the vendors use these suppliers for their own juices it's very, very scary.
