CASAA Call to Action: The FDA Regulations will (not if) become the law of the land. At a minimum, the Vaping landscape will never be the same. Myself and others can only guess at the gory details. Many juice vendors which I have spoken with on a confidential basis plan to “milk” the marketplace as long as they can and then vanish from the face of the planet. Others have no choice since they lack the capital to comply. Other vendors plan to stay around and make changes but prefer to keep the gory details of their business plans secret which to a certain degree is understandable. Many view any detailed disclosures today of their fututre plans to comply with the FDA regulations as a negative which will reduce sales/revenue today.
Given my evaluation of the current eJuice landscape, I was pleasantly surprised and very very happy to see Nicoticket announce their future plans in great detail. They are a relatively small quasi Mom and Pop juice vendor with a dedicated following. Extracts from their announcment:
“Our e-liquid will be made with a state of the art ISO 8 Class 10k clean-room with the ability to continue to upgrade it to ISO 6 Class 1k as required by governmental regulation. This means that your eLiquid will be produced in an environment that rivals pharmaceutical grade environments – it provides a foundation upon which we can very rapidly pursue and obtain certification from the American eLiquid Manufacturing Standards Association (AEMSA). Secondly, we are moving forward with implementation of CGMPs (Current Good Manufacturing Processes) that are presently mandated by the FDA in the areas of Food Safety and Manufacturing of Dietary Supplements. Finally, we will be perusing ISO 9000 family of certification (Quality Management). The moral of the story… we need capital to persist into the post-regulatory environment… worry about your favorite liquid disappearing no longer. This is the kind of thing that needs to be done NOW so we can make our case when the time comes – we intend to position ourselves as a responsible and competent vendor that’s EARNED the right to “make it over the regulatory bar.”
“As has been eluded to previously, we are paring down the line-up to 10 flavors. The selection of these flavors was difficult because we have so many good candidates… we asked all of you (and others), did months and months of market testing, measured metrics like reorders, read tons and tons of reviews, etc…
You all knew these were in like flynn…
The Virus
Custard’s Last Stand
Creme Brulee
Grandma’s Cinnamon Danish
Betelgeuse
Gravity
…that’s (6)… rounding out the (10)
Got Cookie?
Wakonda
Frenilla
Strawnilla”
Source with numerous supportive posts. Please read the entire thread
Nicoticket also prominently displays the SFTA badge on their site. Another action that they have a long term view and plan to continue to sell eJuice post FDA regulations. All the SFATA members are listed on this page. It is not my intention to paint the entire eJuice industry with a broad brush stroke and I am aware or think that other juice vendors either have plans or are formulating plans post FDA regulations. My respectful suggestion is to public share all the details of your plans in a public and prominent manner. Telling me “we have plans” doesn’t cut the mustard. Or reformulating certain juices without details and disclosure is also not what I would like to see. Easy peasy, follow the Nicoticket model. If you arent on ECF then share these details in a prominent fashion on your web site and or your FaceBook page. Finally, even though we are roughly three years away from the FDA regulations becoming the law of the land, Vapers should choose their vendors very carefully and wherever possible “reward” those vendors who make a full and detailed public disclosure of their plans. If their are other vendors that have followed the Nicoticket model, please use my Contact Us form and let me know. I’m happy to feature post every single one of them.
My disclosure with respect to Nicoticket and this post: I have never tasted or ordered any of their juices. I was not asked or compensated in any form to make this post. This Blog does not and never will accept any form of compensation, advertising, or “in kind” for any post which I make. Even if they offer I will respectfully refuse. ~ Steve