Response to “Comment on ‘flavoring chemicals in e-cigarettes: Diacetyl, 2,3-pentanedione, and acetoin in a sample of 51 products, including fruit-, candy-, and cocktail- flavored e-cigarettes’”

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2016, Pages A102-A103

  Allen, Joseph G ^a   Flanigan, Skye S ^a   LeBlanc, Mallory ^a   Vallarino, Jose ^a   MacNaughton, Piers ^a   Stewart, James H ^a   Christiani, David C ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; ACETOIN; ACETYLACETONE; 2,3-PENTANEDIONE; ALKANONE; FLAVORING AGENT;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LETTER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CANDY; CHEMISTRY; FRUIT;

ACETOIN; CANDY; DIACETYL; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FLAVORING AGENTS; FRUIT; PENTANONES;

EID: 84971576760     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP348     Document Type: Letter

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