Katherine was fantastic and made an excellent case. Saying that 5% would be a sensible limit, especially as those antis would probably get percentages and mg mixed up!
We had two companies that were singing from a different hymn sheet. It is a great shame that ECITA is so reliant on e-Lites, because their business model is very similar to BAT/Intellicig only they don't have millions for an MA in spite of their product being as expensive or more expensive than cigarettes, only they get all the profit, most of the cost doesn't go to the government.
The organisation that wants classification as tobacco is, basically, TW (I think they don't like their name in forums unless they're being praised. That's another overpriced product that sells mostly cigalikes although they do have more than tobacco and menthol flavours. In the USA most eliquid is classed as a tobacco product and it may be that fact gets e-cogs banned there. Imagine buying cigalikes at 45 mg with big warnings about smoking causing cancer, impotence, lung disease, heart attack, addicts children through second-hand smoke... with large sick (literally) porn photos covering the packaging.
Of course e-lites want only tobacco and menthol, their customer base doesn't know you can get other flavours. I almost bough e-lites as my first vape but was put off by the price so bought UK Halo, expensive, didn't do much for me, but a choice of flavours and I think they sell cherry, maybe vanilla as well. But cigalikes don't work for me, when I used them I kept going back to real cigarettes rather than 'pretend' ones, but that's my psychology.
Professor Konstantinos Farsalinnos has probably done more genuine unbiased research into the way eliquid affect physiology than anybody else, he is one of the leading experts and probably the leading expert in the effect of everything from smoking to e-cigs who isn't funded by BP or BT or ANTZ and I thought the way he was treated was disgusting.
He should have been given as long as he needed at the very first meeting as he really is an expert. That farce on 25th February lacked a single person who had any idea what they were talking about.
The most sensible suggestion was to create a new classification of nicotine-containing products (minus tomatoes hopefully) that would cover everything from NRT to e-cigs, creating the level playing field that BP wanted back in 2008 when they started to get worried about a future where e-cigs took money away from them... only a truly level playing field isn't wanted by BP as NRT is not as popular as e-cigs. But as NRT can now be sold as a long-term substitute to smoking, what is the real difference apart from the lack of appeal of NRT?
I could go on for ever but I won't.
Today seven countries are giving their response to the TPD, item 17 on the agenda here.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/committees/video?event=20130320-1500-COMMITTEE-ENVI
After medicine regulation, just after fluorinated greenhouse gasses.