A company report on the MHRA consultation meeting on electronic cigarette.

The MHRA has set a new date for the consultation meeting on the electronic cigaratte. The date is now June the 4th. The date set, unfortunately, is currently one day after the end of the consultation period on whether to make the electronic cigarette a medicine!

The MHRA has refused to allow tobacco experts and consultants to attend a consultation meeting on the electronic cigarette.

Is the MHRA deliberately messing electronic cigarette companies around?

New article on The Smoker’s Angel Magazine: A certain feeling of smugness and an attitude of lethargy had settled on UK e-cigarette companies and e-cigarette users – or vapers – in the UK. While the Americans battled the public health groups, manipulation of scientific studies, local state governments and the FDA, the much smaller UK [...]

An excellent video by Kate translating the MHRA’s letter! Please share and embed – we need to spread the word!

In an advert Jason Cropper of the electronic cigarette company has called for tobacco products to be banned during the MHRA’s consultation. Will the RT Hon Andy Burnham ban all Tobacco products on 21st June 2010? The MHRA, the Nation’s Health Regulators, have created for Mr Burnham a golden opportunity to ban ALL tobacco products [...]

MHRA/E Cigarette Update We recently spoke to the MHRA on the topic of electronic cigarettes. It was hard to get much feedback, especially after we told them we were recording the call, as they simply repeated that we should put our comments in writing. However, one of the most interesting points was that the MHRA [...]

When we read the MHRA consultation document we were interested to note that they used the FDA press release (which  stated that electronic cigarettes contained toxins) as a justification for reclassifying the e-cigarette as a medicine. “We know, from work done by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States, that laboratory analysis of [...]