The State Of E-Juice

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koensayer

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Had to sign up for a forum to see if I am the only One. that has a problem with all these e-juice manufactures that are not taking the precautions when manufacturing and distributing their ejuice. I have a local company that mixes their ejuice in a warehouse with no clean room. I have notices customers and employees coughing and sneezing all around. I recently heard that foreign particles have been found in their juice. We should not be tolerating this at all. As an ex-smoker and dedicated vaper, I do care about what I am inhaling. Have noticed a lot of juice manufactures that are all about coping label designs such as gushers candy, sour batch and many others. Am I the only one to see a problem with this? I feel these companies are going to tarnish the vaping community. Any thoughts on this?
Only a matter of time before "somebody" falls "sick" from vaping these e-juice manufacturers before the authorities start to clamp down and regulate e-juice manufacturing. More restrictions and more expensive e-juice.
 
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Few things are regulated more in America than food, yet people get food poisoning and any other number of food borne illnesses every day.

If you don't like the way a company does business, don't buy from them, write a review, move on.

Welcome to ECF by the way :)
 

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What is this "wild west" nonsense? While there may not be any e-liquid specific regulations, it's still a consumer product being manufactured, sold and consumed in the US. You can't just put anything in a liquid, if you put something known to be harmful in, and it harms someone, you'll get sued. If someone gets sick from your negligence, you'll get sued. There is no "wild west" in America, just some areas that haven't been hit by bureaucracy yet. Don't worry, the regs are coming, soon you'll have nice and safe "tobacco" or "menthol" flavor, in sealed cartos, brought you you by those who care about your health, Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds.
 

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Anything involved with our completely corrupt government, with a completely useless and corrupt FDA fully bought out by big Pharma, Big tobacco, and now joined in with the Freak anti-smoke crazies Who have a new issue to "protect" you from, any regulation from them is a two edge sword, with the wrong edge working on us. I would be willing to see some basic regulation on purity of liquids, if that was ALL they were doing. There is no way that's going to be all they will be doing. If the government gets their way you're going to be vaping nothing but useless worthless ciglikes and getting nothing out of them, and going back to cigarettes because that's what they want to protect their precious tax money. The government cares absolutely nothing about you in any way shape or form. It's all about the money, just the money, and only the money. Anybody who doesn't know that is naïve beyond all belief. It's too bad it has to be this way. But it is. Which is why I say everybody and I do mean EVERYBODY who is vaping to get off of Big tobaccos death dealing cigarettes has got to get into DIY to have a good supply of safe liquid before the government sticks it to you. And believe me they will, and worse than you could ever believe.

Couple this with the original concern about liquid quality, and you have the Mother of All Arguments for learning how to DIY absolutely everything. This is one of the big reasons I got into pure mechanical mods and DIY juice. You can buy PG at Tractor Supply and VG at Wal-Mart. A mechanical mod is just a battery in a tube with a switch... and the early ones were literally made from gutted flashlights (for which Li-Ion and IMR batteries will ALWAYS be sold). I've got a nice stockpile of 510 connectors and a few rock-solid RDA's; RCA plugs can also work as a connector in a pinch, and atty's can be made from scratch with a few tools. Nice attys if you have access to a drill press and a lathe. Nichrome wire has a lot of industrial applications other than ecigs, and will always be around.

In short, everything you need to build your own rig & mix your own juice is available online, and 99% of that for other purposes. It's ban-proof. Suck it, nanny-staters.

Everything except the nicotine... but then there are lots of pharmeceuticals that are 'banned' in the U.S. right now, and are only a short drive to Mexico or Canada away. I've got 2 years worth of 100mg nic in the freezer as we speak, and if it comes to that, well... I'll brave a couple hours in Tijuana 5 times a decade. Wouldn't you?
 

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Couple this with the original concern about liquid quality, and you have the Mother of All Arguments for learning how to DIY absolutely everything. This is one of the big reasons I got into pure mechanical mods and DIY juice. You can buy PG at Tractor Supply and VG at Wal-Mart. A mechanical mod is just a battery in a tube with a switch... and the early ones were literally made from gutted flashlights (for which Li-Ion and IMR batteries will ALWAYS be sold). I've got a nice stockpile of 510 connectors and a few rock-solid RDA's; RCA plugs can also work as a connector in a pinch, and atty's can be made from scratch with a few tools. Nice attys if you have access to a drill press and a lathe. Nichrome wire has a lot of industrial applications other than ecigs, and will always be around.

In short, everything you need to build your own rig & mix your own juice is available online, and 99% of that for other purposes. It's ban-proof. Suck it, nanny-staters.

Everything except the nicotine... but then there are lots of pharmeceuticals that are 'banned' in the U.S. right now, and are only a short drive to Mexico or Canada away. I've got 2 years worth of 100mg nic in the freezer as we speak, and if it comes to that, well... I'll brave a couple hours in Tijuana 5 times a decade. Wouldn't you?

No, considering it's more than 2,000 miles away, and Canada is more than 800 miles away -- and isn't vaping frowned on *officially* in both places anyway? But I have 4 yrs of nic in the freezer, and adding more as long as I can.

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what do you mean by clean room?
what do you mean by people sneezing and coughing all over
the place? in a....,a......,a....,warehouse no less.
its a wonder any of us are still alive.
mixing such chemicals as PG and VG both having
excellent antibacterial and viral qualities can be
tricky.
still its interesting to note that there hasn't been
one (as in zero) reported case of any pathogen
being transmitted via e-juice ever.
even the stuff made in some dark,damp and moldy
cobweb infested basement by that guy with the runny nose
and dirty fingernails who is constantly scratching himself
in unmentionable places.
regards
mike
 

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No, considering it's more than 2,000 miles away, and Canada is more than 800 miles away -- and isn't vaping frowned on *officially* in both places anyway? But I have 4 yrs of nic in the freezer, and adding more as long as I can.

Andria

If you got Nic stored away, have access to pharmaceutical grade PG, VG and you can get flavors, you are ready to go like me, and be able to tell the nanny government to stuff it when they come up with their new regulations and try to turn everybody else into worthless cigalike puffers. But hey, big Pharma and big tobacco will be very happy.
 

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If you got Nic stored away, have access to pharmaceutical grade PG, VG and you can get flavors, you are ready to go like me, and be able to tell the nanny government to stuff it when they come up with their new regulations and try to turn everybody else into worthless cigalike puffers. But hey, big Pharma and big tobacco will be very happy.

Yeah, I'm thinking the only thing I need at this point (other than more nicotine for as long as I can) are some insulator and o-ring sets for my kayfuns, so I can keep them working properly; o-rings will always be available, but I dunno about the insulators. All the other stuff is readily available for all sorts of uses (even the PG and VG and flavors!). And although I just got 30ml of WTA which will probably last me thru the summer, with my monthly-decreasing dose, I'll probably grab another bottle of that, for just in case.

The goobermint will NOT force me back to either cigarettes, or crummy cigalikes.

Andria
 
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what do you mean by clean room?
what do you mean by people sneezing and coughing all over
the place? in a....,a......,a....,warehouse no less.
its a wonder any of us are still alive.
mixing such chemicals as PG and VG both having
excellent antibacterial and viral qualities can be
tricky.
still its interesting to note that there hasn't been
one (as in zero) reported case of any pathogen
being transmitted via e-juice ever.
even the stuff made in some dark,damp and moldy
cobweb infested basement by that guy with the runny nose
and dirty fingernails who is constantly scratching himself
in unmentionable places.
regards
mike
Oh god what a visual...shudder...:w00t::cry::censored:
 

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we shouldnt demand anything.... we drive the market by buying from who we believe offers a good product... if we purchase from reputable dealers, then the makers of juice who do not follow the norm will be on their way out due to no sales.... if one doesnt like a product due to labeling, process of making a juice, etc... then dont buy it. But what amazes me is that so many people smoked for so many years putting all sorts of toxins into their system and didnt say anything about it or fuss about it to companies making the ciggies about removing said toxins are now fussing about juice needing to be "sterile"...
 

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Yes, I agree, FDA regulations would be a slippery slope. But I would like to see some regulation for the juice manufacturing something similar to restaurants and food preparation. Foreign particles such as hair & concrete sediment. Yes people are just walking around and hanging out. Do we have any clue, if someone walks in with the flew, sneezes or coughs around the VG, will that bacteria infect the juice? I do know from my research that VG is a carrier where PG kills bacteria. With the cloud chasing community going with MAX VG or 80/20 blends you don't think that could be a problem. I am an avid 100% all in vape. I have more mods then I can count and do not want to see this go by the wayside because of people just in it for the money. Lets lookout for our Vape Fam.

I cant even count how many times Ive gotten my digestive system torn up from eating at/from fast food burger places... obviously the FDA isnt keeping things on the straight and narrow with places of this nature.... even with all the regulations.
 

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we shouldnt demand anything.... we drive the market by buying from who we believe offers a good product... if we purchase from reputable dealers, then the makers of juice who do not follow the norm will be on their way out due to no sales.... if one doesnt like a product due to labeling, process of making a juice, etc... then dont buy it. But what amazes me is that so many people smoked for so many years putting all sorts of toxins into their system and didnt say anything about it or fuss about it to companies making the ciggies about removing said toxins are now fussing about juice needing to be "sterile"...

It doesn't need to be sterile. But having left behind all those toxins, I don't want to go putting in any new ones, and I think that's the general consensus -- even if some of us didn't start for health reasons (like me), we still managed to ditch or dramatically lessen our cigarette consumption, so why jump from the frying pan into the fire?

But thinking the gov't is capable of *reasonable* regulation... hahahahahahahahaha... you clearly haven't lived in America very long. :lol:

Andria
 
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A picture of who makes my e juice

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I mostly DIY, but when I do buy vendor juice I will only buy from vendors I know and trust, who do use a clean room. I refuse to buy from any company that uses colouring or other needless things in their juices, and I want to see the results of testing for diacetyl and other diketones. They also must use child proof caps. If they don't then they don't get my money. I also want them to be advocating as sorry why should I and others do all the work for them to be able to continue to make money off us.

As to the trademarks this was posted in CASAA FB group today General Mills, Girl Scouts Go After Makers Of Liquid Nicotine Over Trademarked Names – Consumerist
 

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I mostly DIY, but when I do buy vendor juice I will only buy from vendors I know and trust, who do use a clean room. I refuse to buy from any company that uses colouring or other needless things in their juices, and I want to see the results of testing for diacetyl and other diketones. They also must use child proof caps. If they don't then they don't get my money. I also want them to be advocating as sorry why should I and others do all the work for them to be able to continue to make money off us.

As to the trademarks this was posted in CASAA FB group today General Mills, Girl Scouts Go After Makers Of Liquid Nicotine Over Trademarked Names – Consumerist

It does seem to me that anyone making ejuice in the USA should be familiar with the concept of "trademark"... and the penalties for infringing them.

Andria
 
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