One brand of e-cigarettes may carry completely different substances than another, and manufactures are not liable to publically publish ingredients or demonstrate safety in their products.
Instead, last month, Revlon for the first time published an ingredients policy.
But, by publishing the ingredients used to mimic the scent of fresh citrus blossoms, SC Johnson is gearing up for a multi-pronged battle against tight-lipped fragrance producers and a 30-year-old right-to-know law in California that the company says exempts many of its competitors from revealing chemicals in rival products.
The problem is there's not much incentive for any individual company to start publishing these ingredient lists — which NTIA calls a "software bill of materials". The benefit only comes when a lot of companies are publishing the lists and the entire software ecosystem is more transparent.
Do not add non-published ingredients unless you know what you're doing; additional items may cause allergies.
CHOCOLATE: In a study published this year, an ingredient in cocoa, epicatechin, was shown to improve spatial memory in mice, especially among those that exercised.
Published protocols recommend ingredient identity, strength, sterility, purity, and environmental tests to be performed for prepared PFS [ 12, 22, 23].
For a few ingredients, scientific assessments of the potential additional harm resulting of their use as cigarette ingredients were published (Talhout et al., 2006; Werley et al., 2006; Heck, 2010).
For open-formula diets, the quantitative ingredients are published and open to the public.
USPlabs submitted published studies on the ingredient in an effort to challenge the F.D.A.'s position, the advisory said, but the agency found the information "insufficient to defend the use of DMAA as an ingredient in dietary supplements".
Their aliases, and the specific risks associated with each ingredient, are published on ConsumerReports.org and available free of charge.
