On non-smoking day (or double-up smoking day, depending on your preference) electronic cigarette users have reason to celebrate. In an extremely positive piece of news for the UK electronic cigarette industry the UK Medicines and Healthcare Product Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have announced what they are going to do about the electronic cigarette. Nothing. At least [...]

On the Electronic Cigarette Forum Rolygate has given a good summary of the situation with electronic cigarette regulation so far. He argues that there is no need for additional regulation. I agree, as Trading Standards is doing a perfectly good job with companies that are based in the UK. Some companies get round regulations by [...]

An open letter to the MHRA. Dear Amanda As you know, there is a conflict of interest between large pharmaceutical companies involved in a multi-billion dollar smoking cessation market and the electronic cigarette. Many smokers will now turn to electronic cigarettes instead of using quit smoking aids. As smoking aids have a low long term [...]

Earlier this month we wrote to the MHRA asking when a decision will be made on whether the e-cigarette will be regulated as a medicine. The MHRA wrote back to us saying the decision was expected this month. Today we wrote again asking for confirmation of this: Dear Mr Mean Thank you again for your [...]

The title of this blog post was a question left on a comment by a user the other day. Here’s our answer! Already regulated Firstly, there is an assumption that the e-cigarette is not currently regulated. In contrast, the electronic cigarette is already regulated by Trading Standards in the UK. Trading Standards officers have already [...]

We were recently been asked to attend an additional meeting with the MHRA. Given that it is a fairly time consuming process and we have a busy business to run, we asked the MHRA if it was worth attending: Dear Amanda I understand that there is to be a further meeting regarding the cMHRA consultation [...]

We recently complained to the MHRA (and other individuals and bodies) about their electronic cigarette consultation process. You can read the full complaint here: MHRA E-Cig Consultation Complaint. The MHRA have now told us that the announcement will be made this month. You can see the full text of the MHRA’s email below: Dear Ms [...]

We have made an official letter of complaint about the MHRA, sending the complaint to the Minister of Health, Vince Cable, Coalition Business secretary and everyone else we can think of. You can read the letter below: Dear Sir, I am writing to you to make you aware of the grave concerns we have over [...]

The MHRA are supposed to be holding a consultation on what to do with the electronic cigarette. Yet according to a leaked trading standards letter the decision has already been made – before the end of the consultation! The letter, which was sent to us by Kate of Vaper’s Network, states: “The outcome will be [...]

We were quite astonished to find out that until we sent the MHRA an electronic cigarette recently they had never actually seen the device they were trying to ban, let alone used or tested it. The MHRA, it seems, are not alone in their neglect. According to one source we have in America, it turned [...]