HSE recalls e-cigarettes with illegal amounts of nicotine

The HSE has repeated a call to the public to stop using e-cigarettes that have been found to contain illegal amounts of nicotine. A total of five flavours of the McKesse brand of e-cigarettes have now been reported to the European Safety Gate, the EU’s rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products, for containing more than the permitted amount of nicotine, which is set at 20mg/ml. In some cases, nicotine values of more than 30mg/ml were found when samples were tested. [...]