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合成尼古丁替代品6-甲基尼古丁让非法电子烟制造商规避监管，埃德加·多梅内克警告
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埃德加·多梅内克告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，中国非法电子烟企业通过用未受监管的替代品替换尼古丁，以继续向儿童销售调味一次性电子烟，从而钻法律空子。
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一名前高级执法官员就中国非法电子烟企业钻法律空子一事发出警告，这些企业通过用未受监管的替代品替换尼古丁，继续向儿童销售调味一次性电子烟。
“这些中国有组织犯罪团伙意识到，如果他们只更换包装上的成分，就会造成混乱，没有任何执法或监管机构负责处理这些非法的一次性电子烟，”前烟酒枪炮及爆炸物管理局副局长埃德加·多梅内克在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。
这种合成化合物6-甲基尼古丁，也称为6MN或“NIX”，是一种尼古丁类似物，以Nixodine和Metatine等品牌销售，一些制造商辩称6-甲基尼古丁产品不属于美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的监管范围。
曾担任纽约市警长的多梅内克表示，尽管尼古丁是一种广为人知的成瘾性物质，受FDA监管，但这种“在中国制造的非法”尼古丁替代品是一个“未知变量”，尚未得到充分研究。
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前烟酒枪炮及爆炸物管理局副局长埃德加·多梅内克告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，中国非法电子烟企业正通过用未受监管的替代品替换尼古丁来钻法律空子。（福克斯新闻数字频道；程欣/盖蒂图片社）
“这是一种不同类型的物质，”他说。“突然间，FDA没有了监管权，但产品还是一样的。这是一种带有调味剂的一次性电子烟产品，目标是我们的孩子和年轻人，却含有未知化学物质。”
多梅内克谈到执法部门在打击非法贸易中的作用时表示，这些企业通过改变产品成分制造“混乱”，导致执法和监管机构“不采取任何行动”。
“这些有组织犯罪团伙比我们领先五步，”他说。“通过改变物质成分，他们现在制造了更多需要解决的新障碍。”
多梅内克表示，这些企业保留了相同的品牌、包装和口味，只更换一种成分，从而从可能不知道自己在摄入什么的儿童身上牟利。
美国企业界对中国的依赖已成为国家安全威胁
2020年1月31日，纽约市一名女子手持Puff Bar品牌的调味一次性电子烟设备。（马歇尔·里策尔/美联社照片）
“他们把这些产品并排放在这些大商店里，因为包装都一样，”他说。“他们所做的只是改变了产品中的一种成分。”
多梅内克表示，这些企业正用含有未知长期健康影响化学物质的调味一次性电子烟瞄准“我们最年轻、最脆弱的一代”。
“他们用口味瞄准我们的年轻人，”他说。“无论是水果口味、糖果口味还是甜点口味。他们瞄准我们的孩子，让他们摄入这些产品，带来未知的后果，因为我们一开始就不知道里面有什么。”
随着青少年电子烟使用越来越普遍，多梅内克表示，一些学校已经安装了检测电子烟的浴室传感器，并补充说：“我们有11岁、12岁、14岁的孩子在吸这些产品。”
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2024年1月29日，伦敦一家纪念品商店展出的多款彩色一次性电子烟。（柯尔斯蒂·威格尔/美联社照片）
他表示，这些产品可能会“在未来引发未知的健康和心理健康问题”。
“针对我们孩子的非法调味一次性电子烟没有任何健康可言，”他说。
杜克大学最近的一项研究发现，6-甲基尼古丁可能比普通尼古丁更强，引发了人们对其可能更易成瘾的担忧。公开专利记录显示，亚利桑那州Mi-Pod公司首席执行官杰夫·哈比希特是美国相关专利的发明人之一，福克斯新闻数字频道此前曾在一项调查电子烟行业与中国关联的报道中提及该公司。
多梅内克表示，提高议员、医疗专业人员、家长和学校的认识，对于填补监管空白、防止更多儿童使用这些产品至关重要。
“教育是我们打击这个问题的重中之重，”他说。“我们需要教育我们的政策制定者，教育我们的医疗专业人员，教育我们的家长和教育系统，让他们明白这些产品是非法的，它们含有未知物质，可能带来未知的健康后果。”
多梅内克表示，议员和执法部门需要更明确的指导来识别和扣押这些产品。
“我们需要协调一致的努力，教育我们联邦层面以及州和地方层面的政策制定者，因为我们需要一线人员了解他们在合法扣押这些产品方面可以做什么，”他说。
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多梅内克称这些企业是“国家安全问题”，表示这些产品“一旦进入我国就应该被扣押，就是这么简单。”
“我们正在失去一代未来的人才，我们未来的领导者，毁在这些产品上，”他说。
安德鲁·马克·米勒是福克斯新闻记者。关注他的推特@andymarkmiller，发送爆料邮件至AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com。
Former top cop warns of loophole exploited by illicit Chinese vape companies ‘targeting our youth’
July 11, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
Synthetic nicotine substitute 6-methyl nicotine lets illegal vape makers sidestep regulators, Edgar Domenech warns
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Edgar Domenech told Fox News Digital illicit Chinese vape companies exploit legal loopholes by replacing nicotine with an unregulated substitute to keep selling flavored disposable vapes to children.
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A former top law enforcement official is sounding the alarm on an attempt by illicit Chinese vape companies to exploit legal loopholes by replacing nicotine with an unregulated substitute to continue selling flavored disposable vapes to children.
“These Chinese organized crime groups, what they realized is if they go ahead and just change the ingredients in the packaging, then they create confusion and there is no enforcement or regulatory agency that then is responsible to address these illicit, illegal, disposable vapes,” former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Deputy Director Edgar Domenech told Fox News Digital in an interview.
The synthetic compound, 6-methyl nicotine, also known as 6MN or “NIX,” is a nicotine analog marketed under brand names including Nixodine and Metatine, with some manufacturers arguing 6-methyl nicotine products fall outside the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authority.
Domenech, the former sheriff of New York City, said that while nicotine is a well-known addictive substance regulated by the FDA, the nicotine substitute “manufactured illegally in China” is an “unknown variable” that hasn’t been studied enough.
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Former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Deputy Director Edgar Domenech told Fox News Digital illicit Chinese vape companies are exploiting legal loopholes by replacing nicotine with an unregulated substitute.(Fox News Digital; Cheng Xin/Getty Images)
“It’s a different type of substance,” he said. “Now, all of a sudden, the FDA doesn’t have oversight, but it’s the same product. It’s a disposable vape product with flavors targeting our kids and our youth with unknown chemicals.”
Pointing to law enforcement’s role in combating the illicit trade, Domenech said the companies create “confusion” by changing the product’s ingredients, causing law enforcement and regulatory agencies to “take no action.”
“The organized crime groups — they’re five steps in front of us,” he said. “By changing the substance, they are now creating additional new obstacles to figure out.”
Domenech said the companies keep the same branding, packaging, and flavors while changing just one ingredient, allowing them to profit from children who may not realize what they’re consuming.
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A woman holds a Puff Bar flavored disposable vape device in New York City, Jan. 31, 2020.(Marshall Ritzel/AP Photo)
“They’re putting these products side by side in these big shops, because the packaging is all the same,” he said. “All they’ve done is changed one of the ingredients in the product.”
Domenech said the companies are targeting “our youngest, most vulnerable generation” with flavored disposable vapes containing chemicals whose long-term health effects remain unknown.
“They’re targeting our youth with flavors,” he said. “Whether it’s fruity flavors, candy-type flavors, dessert flavors. They’re targeting our kids to go ahead and ingest these products with unknown consequences because we don’t know what’s in them to begin with.”
As youth vaping has become more widespread, Domenech said some schools have installed bathroom sensors that detect vaping, adding, “We’ve got 11-year-olds, 12-year-olds, 14-year-olds vaping these products.”
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A selection of colorful disposable vapes on display for sale in a souvenir shop in London, Jan. 29, 2024.(Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)
He said that the products could lead to “unknown health and mental well-being issues down the line.”
“There is nothing healthy about the illegal disposable vapes that are flavored targeting our kids,” he said.
A recent Duke University study found 6-methyl nicotine may be stronger than nicotine, raising concerns it could be more addictive. Public patent records list Geoff Habicht, CEO of Arizona-based Mi-Pod, which Fox News Digital previously reported on as part of an investigation examining ties between the vaping industry and China, as an inventor on U.S. patents referencing 6-methyl nicotine and related compounds.
Raising awareness among lawmakers, health professionals, parents, and schools is vital to closing regulatory gaps and preventing more children from using the products, according to Domenech.
“Education is paramount for us to combat this issue,” he said. “We need to educate our policymakers, we need to educate our health professionals, we need to educate our parents, the educational system to make them understand that these products are illegal, they have unknown substances that can have unknown consequences, health consequences.”
Domenech said lawmakers and law enforcement need clearer guidance to identify and seize the products.
“We need to have a concerted effort to educate our policymakers at the federal level but also at the state and local levels because we need boots on the ground to understand what they can do legally in seizing these products,” he said.
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Domenech called the companies a “national security problem,” saying the products “should be seized the moment they enter this country, period.”
“We’re losing a generation of our future, our future leaders to this product,” he said.
Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.