A potentially-toxic chemical linked with lung disease has been found in an e-cigarette liquid for sale in this country. The product, made by one of the country's biggest e-cigarettes firms VIP, has been withdrawn following an investigation by the BBC.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-28983713
* www.irishtimes.com/news/health/who-report-on-e-cigarettes-could-be-a-case-of-smoke-without-fire-1.1908991
The Inside Out's North East show tested four types of e-cigarette liquid in a laboratory and a butterscotch-flavoured one was found to contain a chemical called diacetyl which is safe to eat but can be harmful if inhaled. It is linked to serious lung disease.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-28983713
* www.irishtimes.com/news/health/who-report-on-e-cigarettes-could-be-a-case-of-smoke-without-fire-1.1908991
According to the Inside Out programme, to be shown tomorrow at 7.30pm in the North East and Cumbria, VIP's head of retail ditribution Lynne White said she was "very disappointed" the refill was still available as the firm's own testing discovered the chemical around a week before.
She told the show: "This is our first issue in five years. We sell millions of bottles a year. We are very sorry it has happened, we are investigating how it has happened."
Dr Graham Burns, consultant physician in Respiratory Medicine at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, was also interviewed for the programme.
He said: "That particular chemical - diacetyl - is associated with an unusual but well-established lung condition called popcorn worker's lung.
"It has been inhaled in significant quantities in people who worked in popcorn manufacturing factories.
"In those individuals it has caused a very serious lung condition, serious enough to warrant lung transplantation."
Diacetyl is used in foods to give products a buttery taste.
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