E - cigarettes: Labelling practice and regulations
| Author(s)
Federico Buonocore, Gianpiero Calabrese, Ana Marques Gomes, Shereen El-Nabhani and Stephen Barton
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Federico Buonocore PhD Student, School of Pharmacy, Kingston University, London | Abstract Over the past decade Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) have triggered a lot of interest in relation to their efficacy and use. However there is a limited amount of information with regards to user and environmental safety. Several regulations have been introduced to promote their safe handling and disposal. From May 2016, refills and cartridges will be regulated by European Community Directives (ECDs) 2001/83/EC and 93/42/EEC, or 2014/40/EU if marketed as tobacco-related products.
Currently, manufacturers and distributors must abide by the CHIP4 Regulations (2009) or CLP Regulations, the latter replacing CHIP4 in June 2015. In this work, the compliance of marketed e-refills and ENDS with current EU and UK legislations is assessed. E-liquids and ENDS (22 and 9 brands, respectively) were evaluated.
Evidence of non-compliance was found in relation to CHIP/CLP pictograms (13%), environmental pictogram (32%), tactile warning (22.5%), nominal amount of solution (32.2%), supplier contact phone number (22.5%) and address (6.4%). None of the evaluated ENDS displayed information on the correct disposal/recycling of batteries in line with the ECD 2006/66/EC. More stringent enforcement of regulations is needed to ensure not only the safety and full user information, but also the safeguarding of the environment.
| Source of funding: Kingston University, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing.
| Declaration of interest: Authors are unaware of any conflict of interests.
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