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Patients, out of four patients total of three were able to bring us the cartridges, and we send them for analysis to department of health, and they all came back vitamin e acetate. so it is this vitamin e that is in oil, and it is not supposed to be inhaled. yes, you can digest it and yes, you can put it on your skin, but it should not be inhaled because the boiling point of vitamin e is around 360 degrees fahrenheit, and once it vaporizes, it quickly comes back to its original oil form when it is in the lungs. jedediah: so what does it do? what it actually doing in your lungs? >> so what espe...

Officials have identified vitamin e acetate in the lung fluid of dozens of people. so what do we know about the substance, and what does that mean for people who are still vaping? joining us now to discuss, dr. melody. welcome to the show. when i heard this, you know, vitamin e is a up element that a lot of people -- is a supplement that a lot of people take. >> it all that started four months ago, and we had our first case where when we did analysis at the department of health in new york, they found out that the cartridge, it was a fake thc cartridge which was cut with vitamin e acetate. so ...

Causing inflammation because it doesn't belong there. it's a lipid, so it can give you -- [inaudible] if. jedediah: wow. >> yes. i mean, we still have a lot to learn and investigate and do research on -- jedediah: let me ask you this, there, because it said that 82% of the samples also contained thc. so my mind immediately goes to, okay, 40 do we know it's the vitamin e? could it be the combination of both? is there certainty that vitamin e is the culprit here? enter it seems like it is the culprit because it is, there are people out there doing different can type of i would imagine cartridges...

Is legal. so if they are using those, we don't see any -- at least to my knowledge, all the patients i had used fake cartridge in new york. so therefore, we are leaning towards vitamin e at this point. it's not just the thc. jedediah: well, thanks so much for being here. we're going to continue to follow it. a coffee business booming under the trump economy. the cofounders share their success story and the difference they have made for vets everywhere. coming up next.

Dozens of people across the country. health officials say they may have isolated a chemical compound they believe could be behind the outbreak. garrett tenney has more on the story from washington. >> after eight months of searching for answers, health officials are calling this a breakthrough. vitamin e acetate is an oily substance that you find in foods and skin care products but also being used to dilute the liquid in vaping products that contain thc, the psychoactive component of marijuana. vitamin e acetate is not known to cause harm when swol lowed or apl asupplied to the skin -- applied...