NolaMel

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The most salient point in the article, IMO: "The FDA has asked for bids on a contract to provide “vape Inspection” services. The agency is prepared to spend $23 million over a five-year period to verify compliance, and has published a detailed list of items inspectors will be searching for."

Good luck with that.
Like I said, snails pace. At least that’s their top speed on the medical side
 

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Just received another email. They replaced "all internal mechanisms" which I will assume would be the switch/510.

I have to say I'm happy with the turnaround and that I didn't need to fight to get it fixed.
 

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So, TSA for packages?
Kind of. I'm not involved with their actual software but I was a coder in 2 AI scanner/recognition projects (robots&warehouse). Likely there'd be a point system similar to what a spam checker has and it would be based on several different things, spitting out a score the system can base some basic decisions on. Sender address/origin and weight would be obvious ones, shape matching and other black magic would be others. If a score gets high enough actual humans would look into it.

That's just my fantasy of how it works, like I said I only know some generalities of such systems.
 
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Probably a scare tactic to bring in money from those that haven't already complied.

But it will be effective..

23 million over 5 years will hire two guys.. but those two guys can cause a lot of damage when no one knows if they will be next...
 

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Stunning creature. Moves like a thoroughbred.
Mine, not so much... but he did tell me to order whatever shinies I want for my upcoming vape anniversary. I could have posted the picture of him standing at the oak tree during the middle of a hurricane waiting for the squirrels, but no need to embarrass someone who supports my buying of shiny goodies!
 

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Just saw something on FB saying that e-cigs had 10X the cancer causing agents that a analog carries, some Japanese scientist has came up with that claim, guessing he is PO'd about China having cornered the market on vaping, and it's his only way to try and fight back... But you know what they say....If it's on FB it must be true :lol::danger::lol:

Oh the Japanese are just trying to ramp up the fear so the black market will open up for them..
 

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Mine, not so much... but he did tell me to order whatever shinies I want for my upcoming vape anniversary. I could have posted the picture of him standing at the oak tree during the middle of a hurricane waiting for the squirrels, but no need to embarrass someone who supports my buying of shiny goodies!
Bring him along too. Looks like he puts a smile on your face every day.:)
 

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But it will be effective..

23 million over 5 years will hire two guys.. but those two guys can cause a lot of damage when no one knows if they will be next...
I doubt they will hire a company that small and the co. they do hire will have a list of who the FDA wants a hard look at.
 

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