Illegal to sample e-juice in 3 days?

[Eskie]

@Eskie maybe sterile is pushing it a little bit but with some of the things I have seen posted over the years online by some e-liquid manufacturers were pretty scary to be honest. There was on e-liquid manufacturer who posted a picture once of a barrel pouring e-liquid into a bottle sitting on the floor. This resulted in a major uproar and changes at the company. If memory serves me right they even posted a picture of a minor in that mixing lab. I feel we do need some regulations but nothing near what the FDA is doing.

Oh, I agree there. And standard good manufacturing practices should be in place. Records of what was made, and made of should be kept. Areas of preparation should be clean. Laboratory standard equipment should be used for proper measuring and mixing, not your home blender you brought in for the day to speed things up. Making sure individuals doing the preparation know how to do it, and do it with proper safety equipment such as nitrile gloves and safety glasses (really, a splash of that nic in your eye cannot feel good). And so on....

None of that is terribly fancy or difficult. It's good for the customer and good for the employees. And if that's all the FDA wants, terrific. But my gut is they will expect virtually pharmaceutical grade standards which simply aren't appropriate or necessary for these products. But yes, I'd rather not find a strand of the mixer's hair in my juice.

 

[Sanctuary Denied]

This is what my boss at my vape shop is implementing according to the rules.

Come in to sample juice, $1.00 you get 10 samples. Employees have to enter this as a separate transaction and file the receipt.
Can't lock down on a new flavor with those 10, another $1.00 charge for 10 more samples, again added as a separate transaction.

I went to a local B&M yesterday to ask about sampling, among other questions, on how they were going to "vape forward".
They are also going to charge 10 cents per sample and discount it for any purchase.
In the words of the owner "I have to charge for the samples, but I can give any discount I want".
Now that they can not build either, several customers have offered to hang out in the lounge area and build and teach those who aren't up to speed.
Even though I rarely visit any B&M, I think I might stop in more often to help out when/where I can.