Dr. F's article says
"The e-cigarette may be the cause of this disease, but only under one condition: the patients were inhaling lipid (oil) based flavorings and e-liquids. We know that most flavors in the food industry are dissolved in oil (usually vegetable oil). These are perfectly safe for ingestion, but should NOT be used for inhalation. Inhaling oils can lead to lipoid pneumonia."
When I started DIY, I noticed some of the flavoring mfgs. had oil based flavorings on their sites. As they should, since they cater to the food industry. If you read enough in the DIY areas, there are vapers who do use flavorings with oils, they are not concerned.
Some are. Others are concerened about diacetyls, acetoins, and acetyl proprionol.
The problem comes when you are not making your own eliquid. Which is why some of us are sticklers when it comes to asking for disclosure. Some of them like TPA and FA have been very forthcoming with testing, knowing their flavorings ARE being used by vapers, not just food industry. Others, not so much.
Nobody is asking for regulation, but disclosure is important. The flavorings mfgs. can pass that info on to the eliquid mixers, which in turn also allows the mixers to disclose.
I vape peppermint stuff, and creamy stuff, so ordering involves me writing an email to vendor asking if the flavoring company they use is oil based peppermint, or if their custard has D or A or AP. Since most won't say what flavoring company they use, they can ask their flavoring company and then let me know.
Every vaper can make decisions for themselves. Nobody knows for sure what and what is not safe yet. But if someone has decided they don't want X in their juice, they have
every right to simply know if X is in there or not.
This is very doable, since there ARE flavoring companies who have tested and know what's in their flavorings. All we want to know from the eliquid vendor is if they have vetted the flavorings for absence of the things
some of us do not want to inhale.
This seems pretty simple to me. No cause for freaking out over articles like this, because the "fix" is just to do what I noted above, a
very simple solution.
It's just salesmanship 101: know your product. If you know your product then your customers can, too.
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