HSE recalls e-cigarettes with illegal amounts of nicotine
August 29, 2023 by imt.ie
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. [...]
18.00% of the adult population are current smokers. There are approximately 717,042 current smokers in Ireland 21.00% of men are current smokers but only 15.00% of women.
SOURCE: GSTHR
