CASAA: U.S. extracted nicotine will soon be available
Anyone have any updates or info on this?
I find it interesting that the extraction lab Avoca is actually a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds. It's conspiracy theory time!!
FDA slow to enact any kind of regulation on ecigs. Goverment even slower for taxing liquid nic. R.J. Reynolds bought them out to buy time to set up their own FDA facility with the agreement that after they are up and running Nicotine will then be classified as a controlled substance banning the import of nic from oversea's AND since the only available source would be centralized, the sin taxes can be applied easily. This way goverment gets more money, and big tobacco will offset any profit loss since the mad dash from analog to e-cigs!
On another note, everywhere i read say's this will be the first US nicotine production facility. It rubs me wrong when vendors state USA sourced, made in usa blah blah when its just not true. Man up and say from a wharehouse located in the US that imports from china or India and cut the bull.
Lol, "conspiracy theory time"? It's more like a "conspiracy
reality"...and even more like a plain in-your-face 'hiding in plain site' (and not even hiding, at that)!
So, RJ Reynolds,...(through their lobbying & vast circle of other "holdings" - both known holdings and those very difficult to trace back to RJR)...that has bought-and-paid-for and controlled/owned politicians & 3-letter-authorities for DECADES already - is now going to set up an "FDA approved" facility 'operating under food grade current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs)' for extracting nicotine in the USA. Well, isn't THAT special?
From the article link in the CASAA link:
Universal Corporation Announces Joint Venture to Produce Liquid Nicotine -- RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
the leading global leaf tobacco supplier, announced today that its subsidiary, Virginia Tobacco Company, Inc., has joined Avoca, Inc., one of the world's premier botanical extraction companies, in the formation of AmeriNic, Inc. to produce liquid nicotine for the electronic cigarette industry
This new business will produce high quality, United States Pharmacopeia (USP) grade liquid nicotine in the United States using fully traceable and compliant tobaccos. AmeriNic, Inc. expects to begin production of liquid nicotine before the end of the calendar year.
George C. Freeman, III, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Corporation, stated, "We continually evaluate opportunities to meet the evolving needs of our customers and our industry. The electronic cigarette industry is developing rapidly, and as a leader in leaf tobacco sourcing and agronomic research, we are pleased to bring our expertise to this dynamic market. We believe that the best source of liquid nicotine is tobacco and that AmeriNic, Inc. has the capability needed to build a supply chain to provide the highest quality product at a competitive price. AmeriNic, Inc. looks forward to being a reliable, high-quality supplier for this new and emerging market.
David A. Holmes, President of Pharmachem Laboratories, Inc., parent company of Avoca, Inc. stated, "We are pleased to join with Universal Corporation in forming AmeriNic, Inc. to manufacture and supply liquid nicotine to the fast growing electronic cigarette industry. "This venture fits our business model of controlling the supply chain to ensure reliable delivery of high quality ingredients to our customers.
Based in Merry Hill, North Carolina, Avoca operates an extraction facility operating under food grade current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs).
From the CASAA article:
According to our research, including industry sources, the nicotine currently used in e-cigarette liquid (even those advertised as "U.S. Made") is extracted by companies located in China, Japan, India, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Sweden and Norway and shipped to U.S. distributors. As far as we can tell, this will be the first company to extract nicotine from US-grown tobacco within the U.S. and it is pure extract intended for labs and businesses, not for retail sale.
So there's the plan: to totally 'control the supply chain' (something "they" have proven they have the power to do in the past) so they can provide us all with a safe, "fully traceable, compliant, high-quality product" that only they are capable of providing.
But how in the world could they ever convince the "3 letter agencies' & politicians that this is necessary? (as if they have to convince them when they're all part of the same 'happy family')? After all, all the vendors of nic ALWAYS tell the truth about the source & origin of the nic they sell to the public, eh? NOPE, at least one of them LIES about the source/origin (claiming to be the only US extraction). But all of the vendors ALWAYS provide up-to-date, legitimate CoA's & testing for EVERY batch they sell, eh? With full disclosure of the same, eh?. NO THEY DON'T! And we don't demand it.
But there's a major piece missing that could be the excuse to detonate the bomb (and then lock everything into their control 'for our safety')...and that is people being harmed by all this unregulated foreign nicotine! Nobody has ever been harmed by all this nicotine floating around from all these countries...yet.
Anybody that believes a government and/or mega-corporation would never harm it's citizens in order to gain power & profit isn't up on their history. And while it may BE a conspiracy, it's certainly not a theory...it has been a reality in the past.
Of course, maybe a 'catastrophic event' big enough to convince all the players doesn't have to happen for "them" to take over & take control...but in the meantime, we're not vaping ANY nic that doesn't come from a supplier that fully tests and makes
available a CoA for
every batch they sell (to our knowledge, the only vendor that does that is NN...but there may be others).
One things for sure, after the plans are created & implemented (and multi-millions spent) by the 'big boys', the time for self-regulation and preventing the take-over is likely past. And if anyone is ever harmed by 'unregulated nic', it's definitely over...and we can kiss DIYing goodbye (unless of course, we have a stash).
:::sigh::: They were NOT going to roll-over-and-die and let the opportunity to snag millions of addicts/dollars pass them by 'unregulated'. But what a shame that when CASAA/individuals go into the arena to fight for our rights, they're going to be slaughtered ruthlessly with the evidence of the lies, inadequate testing & disclosure and sloppy methodology of the very vendors they're trying to defend. Shame on those vendors...and shame on us for supporting them.
Freedom...is never free.
