Vitamin E acetate is not present in licit e‐cigarette products available on the UK market

Nyakutsikwa, Blessing; Britton, John; Bogdanovica, Ilze; Langley, Tessa

Abstract

Aims
To determine whether nicotine-containing vaping products submitted to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) under the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 contain tetrahydrocannabinol or vitamin E acetate.

Methods
Analysis of data on ingredients for all products submitted for notification for the UK market by October 2017 to assess whether any were reported to contain vitamin E acetate or THC. The analysis was not pre-registered and the results should therefore be considered exploratory.

Results
Vitamin E acetate and THC were not listed as an ingredient or emission in any of the 41,809 products that were submitted for notification.

Conclusions
In the UK, vapers and those considering switching from tobacco to vaping can be reassured that licit products available on the UK market do not contain tetrahydrocannabinol or vitamin E acetate.

Citation

Nyakutsikwa, B., Britton, J., Bogdanovica, I., & Langley, T. (2020). Vitamin E acetate is not present in licit e‐cigarette products available on the UK market. Addiction, 115(4), 782-783. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14920

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 25, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Nov 30, 2019
• Publication Date: 2020-04
• Deposit Date: Dec 3, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 1, 2020
• Journal: Addiction
• Print ISSN: 0965-2140
• Electronic ISSN: 1360-0443
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 115
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 782-783
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14920
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3461705
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/add.14920
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Nyakutsikwa, B., Britton, J., Bogdanovica, I., and Langley, T. ( 2020) Vitamin E acetate is not present in licit e‐cigarette products available on the UK market. Addiction, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14920. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.