so what did the FDA find so far?
The FDA tested only two brands of cartridges and found trace amounts of nitrosamines, which are common to every type of tobacco-derived nicotine.
And in one of the 20 cartridges, they found a small amount of ethylene glycol in one of the cartridges. Ethylene glycol is not generally found in e cigs, but this e cig manufacturer obviously had a quality control problem and the cartridge was contaminated.
In any case, the FDA via the media politicized the issue -- going on and on about the "carcinogenic nitrosamines", even though the amount found in e cigs was even lower than those found in Nicorette gum or Commit lozenges, both of which products are FDA approved & available over the counter -- and immensely lower than the amounts found in cigarettes. And the "ethylene glycol" was made to sound as though it was some "essential component to e vapor", rather than just an accidental contaminant in a single e cig cartridge.
In any case, now State and County governments feel forced to "do something about e cigarettes" and many are passing laws against them until the notoriously slow FDA approves them. If that happens, we won't see a legal e cig until doomsday.
To add insult to injury, major pharmaceutical industries and the cigarette industry have combined forces to finance a campaign against e cigs with our legislatures, because both groups lose money when we are using e cigs and not their products.
The whole thing irritates me to no end!
