FOI release

E-cigarette analysis print

Case reference FOI2024/00769

Received 4 December 2024

Published 14 January 2025

Request

I am trying to find out how many reports per year have been submitted to the yellow card scheme about e-cigarettes. Currently I can find up to date (April 2024) information in this table Electronic_Cigarette_Drug_Analysis_Print_up_to_31.03.2024.pdf – however this is not broken down by year or into how seriously the reports were considered by the MHRA. This information would be really useful – the most up to date data I can get for this comes from the OHID report ‘Nicotine vaping in England: 2022 evidence update summary’ – it would be excellent if I could access the data on the total of reports each year and how serious said reports are considered (updated up to 2024 as the table above is). This is the section in the OHID report which references MHRA data: Between 20 May 2016 (implementation of TRPR) and 13 January 2022, MHRA received 257 reports of adverse reactions (26 of those since January 2021). Each report represents an individual for whom more than one adverse reaction could have been reported. A report is not proof that the reaction was caused by a vaping product, just that the reporter thought it might have been. Since January 2021, the MHRA has considered 14 of the reports as serious and no fatalities were reported. Please can you direct me to where I can access this information but up to date for 2024?

Response

see attached

Documents

• FOI 2024.00769 Annex A.pdf (94.2 KB)
• FOI 2024.00769 E-Cigarette Drug Analysis Print.pdf (705.7 KB)
• FOI 2024.00769 redacted for publication.pdf (158.5 KB)

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