lead is a neurotoxin and impairs brain development and metal particles in generall in the bloodstream can trigger blood clotting l and exacerbate - cardiovascular disease. the carboniles that you've found are mildly carcinogenic- and therefore with sustained use iwill increase the risk of cancer. i but in legal products, - the levels of all of these things is extremely low. it's illegal to sell vapes to under—18s, yet leon and oscar can get these easily. i get mine from shops, walk in, ask them what flavour you want the past year. give them money. well, back out. simple. anyone wanting to sell vapes in england has to come to the mhra. the regulatory body for medicines and health care products. yet they currently have no legal powers to check that. what the manufacturer says is in the vape is true. social media is awash with ads for the illegal vapes we tested. the government has recently announced an extra £3 million
was six and a half times. the lead comes from around the coil or heating element, which contains nickel and chrome. but our tests also showed that they were present in the e—liquid itself. we've extracted the e—liquid to determine metals content and so there's a chance that the e—liquid itself has been reacting with the metal to cause leaching of those metals into the e—liquid. these are present in vape products due to the heating element, the formation of a heating element. we don't normally see that coming into out into the e—liquid. almost all the vapes we tested were illegal. anything over two mililitres of e—liquid is against the law. 0ur tests also showed that there were breaches on packaging. this product has seven times the uk legal limit on its claimed on its packaging. we also found varying levels of carboniles. now these are thermal gradients when the e—liquid is heated up inside the device before you inhale it. it's breaking down some of the e—liquid and forming some of the same chemicals that you find in cigarette smoke, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde. the carbonile levels were ten times higher than those found