South Africa's first set of voluntary standards for e-cigarette products is about to be released
The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) is working to develop standards to guide the production and use of vaping products in the country.
SABS will form a national technical committee to help draft standards for the increasingly popular e-cigarette market.
Currently, there are no guidelines or regulations for e-cigarette production in South Africa.
The SABS standard will cover vaping products, vaping devices and their components.
SABS chief administrative officer Jodi Scholtz said the committee would use existing international standards as well as other research and policy to help develop South Africa's voluntary national standards.
Once the committee is established, the standard can take anywhere from 6 months to 300 days to finalize.
SA Bureau of Standards chief administrator Jodi Scholtz said: 'We have two options, we can either adopt these international standards directly or develop our own. International adoption takes about six months, while local standards take longer.
The standards will include guidance on manufacturers' safety and quality requirements, Scholtz said.
They will also contain information on the types of substances that can be used in vaping products as well as important user information.
SABS standards are voluntary in nature, but they can be incorporated into regulation if lawmakers so desire.
"All the standards that the bureau proposes are applied voluntarily," Scholtz explained.
Meanwhile, South African lawmakers are tweaking a draft bill to regulate e-cigarettes and e-cigarettes in the country, but the Control of Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Act has drawn a lot of criticism.
SA Bureau of Standards chief administrator Jodi Scholtz said at the moment, we do not have any standards for e-cigarettes and the devices used in South Africa. This is the call we have made. We hope to set up a technical committee to help us develop these national standards.
“The potential standard for e-cigarettes is a voluntary standard. SABS is not in the business of mandatory regulation. Regulators can certainly adopt national standards and make them part of their regulations.”
"The composition of the technical committee is very important as this will affect the look and feel of the standard in the South African economy."
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