Mint e-cigarette carcinogens exceed the standard
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Last Update: 2020-06-08
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Source: Internet
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Humintone is an extract component of the mint plant, which can cause liver cancer, lung tissue deformation and organisms in mice by oralHupartan ketone is listed by the World Health Organization as a class 2B carcinogen that may cause cancer, and the U.SFood and Drug Administration last year banned the use of mint ketone as a food additiveResearchers at Duke University School of Medicinetested six types of e-cigarettes and smokeless cigarettes containing flateauIt was found that the exposure limits of flatyrate in e-cigarettes ranged from 325 to 6012 and smokeless cigarettes between 549 and 1646, both of which had a cancer riskthe FDA's "exposure limit" for carcinogens (i.e., the maximum amount of non-carcinogenic use divided by the expected daily use) must not be less than 10,000The lower the value, the greater the health riskteam published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association's Journal of Internal Medicine that the daily exposure to the above-scented e-cigarettes is 86 to 1,600 times more than mint-flavored combustible cigarettesPanais Galasato, director of the Tobacco Treatment Clinic at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, called the findings "highly worrying."The U.SDepartment of Health and Human Services announced Monday that it will introduce rules in the coming weeks to ban the sale of non-tobacco e-cigarettes to curb the trend of teen snorting e-cigarettesU.Shealth authorities have repeatedly warned of the health risks of e-cigarettes, and more than 450 cases of severe lung disease linked to the use of e-cigarettes are being investigatedEarly last month, the FDA said it had received 127 reports of seizures after using e-cigarettes and was investigating whether e-cigarettes were the direct cause.
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