Medicinal Regulation? Not good for UK or the rest of us

[warrior3995]

So what will this mean for the vendor and where we buy our ejuice? Medicines regulations what does that mean? I believe it is big pharma getting the ball!!! read down and you find this 2.The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced in 2013 that, from 2016, electronic cigarettes and other nicotine-containing products would be subject to medicines regulation, thus requiring manufacture to medicinal purity and delivery standards, and proactive con...trols on advertising. In addition, the European tobacco Product Directive (TPD) will, from mid-2016 at the latest, prohibit most advertising of unlicensed nicotine devices and require products to carry health warnings, meet as yet undefined purity and emissions standards, require data on nicotine uptake, limit nicotine content, and require suppliers to take full responsibility for quality and safety when used ‘under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions’. https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/press-releases/rcp-statement-e-cigarettes

 

[caramel]

Doesn't make sense:

"Regulation should ensure that products deliver nicotine effectively and safely; that advertising and promotion do not target young people or other non-smokers; and that advertising and use (for example, in public places) do not undermine smoking prevention policies. The RCP therefore supports regulation of electronic cigarettes and other novel nicotine products as medicines".

Either it's a medicine and I can administer it when needed, or it's not.

 

[warrior3995]

Doesn't make sense:

"Regulation should ensure that products deliver nicotine effectively and safely; that advertising and promotion do not target young people or other non-smokers; and that advertising and use (for example, in public places) do not undermine smoking prevention policies. The RCP therefore supports regulation of electronic cigarettes and other novel nicotine products as medicines".

Either it's a medicine and I can administer it when needed, or it's not.

Yes I know and it says that by 2016 the UK will make all " electronic cigarettes and other novel nicotine products as medicines" which will give pharma the ball on this industry, no more making your own juice for the store, stores will have to buy from pharma or a certified vendor put in place by RCP or have all equipment and juice tested at their cost and the environment where it is made inspected to meet medical standards, who can afford that and that cost will show up in the retail price.
They will have total control of the vaping industry, so much for cheap vaping and probably the end to many vape shops!

 

[warrior3995]

I don't know but a graduates degree in chemistry sounds like a must if you want to make and sell your ejuice.