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Nothing todo with marijuana, it’s just Vitamin E, which makes it easier to produce vape liquids

It has to do with marijuana.

According to the Missouri health department, marijuana products without added Vitamin E were failing the safety test because they contained naturally occurring Vitamin E.

So specifically for marijuana products they increased the allowable amount.

I don't really understand why they decided this though. Their reasoning suggests that they think natural occurring poison is less harmful than added poison ?

I initially posted a wrong comment, but after a more careful re-reading, I think their argument is Vitamin E Acetate is bad. But Vitamin E (non-acetate) is fine. Now, I don't know whether that's true or not.

> It was determined that raising the VEA [Vitamin E Acetate] action limit to 5ppm (0.0005% by weight) accounts for any naturally occurring vitamin E, which has not been identified as a health and safety concern upon inhalation and prevents false failures for VEA screening

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