Stop Buying Unregulated Vapes (A Chemist Explains)

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]A lot of our focus is, you may have heard of HHPC testing. So, that's harmful and potentially harmful constituents. So, there's certain analytes that are mandated by FDA tool kit, but it very much depends on the product and what you're actually looking for. So, if we're looking at a nicotine product, you're looking for impurities such as tobacco-specific nitrosamines, which are highly carcinogenic.

[00:00:23]They can come from the manufacturing process or the quality of the raw materials, but they can also form over time. So, one of the big things we do is we actually put products under very, very controlled conditions. We'll analyze those products maybe every 3 months, and you're looking for changes in the chemical structure of those products. So, that would be what I would call stability testing.