FEATURE
Introducing
TPD Expert
ADACT MEDICAL AND VAPOUROUND
LEADING THE WAY IN SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE
W
e are delighted to announce that UK-based safety
and compliance specialists Adact Medical are now our
preferred compliance agency partner.
Adact has more than 20 years of medical product
regulation experience worldwide and are members of
the UK Vaping Industry Association.
Over the next 12 months the TPD compliance experts at Adact will
share their knowledge with our readers and answer any questions
you may have on regulatory matters.
These regular Q&A features are designed to cover a broad range of
topics concerning compliance and regulation so if there is anything
you need to know then now is the time to ask.
Just submit your questions to [email protected] and
we will print a selection of answers in our April edition and in future
editions in our regular ‘Vapouround Adact compliance feature’.
We are also able to announce the launch of a game-changing new
online tool which will allow anyone to quickly and easily check
whether e-liquids and vaping products are TPD compliant.
This joint project between Vapouround and Adact means you simply
click on the “TPD Search” tab on the Vapouround Magazine home
page and the entire database of compliant products is available
for you from our new “TPD Expert” search tool.
TPD Expert was designed to allow consumers, trading standards
personnel and anyone within the vape industry to find the
information they need regarding TPD compliance.
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You can search for producers, vape devices and e-liquids to check
whether vaping products and e-liquids are listed by the Medicines
& Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), and are
therefore legal to sell.
TPD Expert is updated each day from the official public information
available at the MHRA submitted products section on the Gov.UK
E-cigarettes website
Previously the only way to find this information was to search the
MHRA website and scroll through one of two huge spreadsheets
but now the information is quickly and easily accessible directly
from the Vapouround and Adact websites.
With the popularity of nicotine shots on the rise, short-fill products
that accompany them are increasingly becoming an area of
concern. Although the nicotine shots themselves are perfectly
legal under TPD, so long as they are registered and not more than
10ml or 20mg/ml, short-fill liquids raise potential issues of public
safety around their un-notified status under TPD.
Robert Sidebottom, Managing Director of Adact Medical said:
“Regulators and the MHRA are being urged to bring these
potentially dangerous short-fill products under the control of the
TPD as many contain untested liquids such as diacetyl, which
would not pass through TPD tests, and they often don’t have child
resistant packing.”
“As the short-fills are sold without nicotine, they also don’t carry
safety warnings. Therefore, sometimes it isn’t possible to tell