China to Draw Up E-Cigarette Standards for This Year
Ma Xiaohua
DATE:  Jun 03 2019
/ SOURCE:  yicai
China to Draw Up E-Cigarette Standards for This Year China to Draw Up E-Cigarette Standards for This Year

(Yicai Global) June 3 -- China intends to introduce mandatory standards for electronic cigarettes this year, with approval expected before the year's close, according to a government schedule.

China is the world's biggest tobacco products market, but its e-cigarette industry has so far been lightly regulated. The nation's tobacco regulator, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, applied to the Standardization Administration to set benchmarks in 2017. These are now pending approval.

China's market for e-cigarettes is already worth more than CNY4 billion (USD580 million) and could be valued at USD15 billion in the future, according to a December report by Research and Markets.

The new standards will assess and limit all components in e-cigarettes to control toxic substances. Technical specifications and content will focus on detecting nicotine, propanediol and glycerol.

Many e-cigarette makers advertise their products as tasting like real cigarettes without being harmful, but the World Health Organization and other authorities have identified them as being no less harmful than conventional tobacco-based products.

E-cigarettes contain toxins and pollutants and most have nicotine, research shows. They also contain glyoxal, which normal cigarettes do not, and the concentration of some metals is even higher than in standard cigarettes, Sun Jiani, a technical official at the WHO China Representative Office, told Yicai Global.

Editors: Zhang Yushuo, William Clegg

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Keywords:   Electronic Cigarettes