PAS 54115:2015

This standard PAS 54115:2015 Vaping products, including electronic cigarettes, e-liquids, e-shisha and directly-related products. Manufacture, importation, testing and labelling. Guide is classified in these ICS categories:

• 65.160 Tobacco, tobacco products and related equipment

This PAS gives guidance for the manufacture, importation, labelling, marketing and sale of vaping products (VP) including electronic cigarettes, e-shisha, DIY e-liquid mixing kits, and directly related products.

The PAS also gives guidance focussing on the purity of e-liquid ingredients in manufacture, contaminants arising from device materials and potential emissions from device operation, electrical safety, and metals and carbonyls in emissions. The PAS describes a test solution-liquid, and an outline for the toxicological and chemical analysis of emissions.

The PAS also gives guidance for the safety of batteries and chargers.

The PAS refers to existing safety guidance already in place which are relevant to this sector.

The PAS is applicable to producers and distributors of VP in the UK, and forms a guide for commercial operations in this sector.

The PAS is also applicable to laboratories and testing houses engaged in, or planning to be engaged in, the testing of VP.

This PAS is not intended to cover those VP which are licensed as medicinal products or medical devices. It is not intended to cover “heat not burn” or other tobacco products. It does not cover wireless communication features which may be built in to vaping devices, but does cover the vaping products themselves. It also does not cover products which can be used in or as VP, but which are sold for other purposes, e.g. food flavourings sold in supermarkets.