But the heating element is resident in the cart, not the "battery" that heats it up, no? When you screw a 510 cartridge onto a vape pen/battery/whatever you aren't using the coil of the pen itself (which is usually in the atomizer piece, which you remove in order to attach the 510 cart). So if metals are getting into the liquids from the heating element it's happening inside each cartridge, and not the device that drives it.
Which actually makes it harder to eliminate risk since every cart could have this problem, potentially, assuming they've diagnosed it correctly (which I wouldn't assume just yet given the history of this "crisis"....)
Yeah, I'm not clear on exactly what the source was although I assumed it is from the cartridge itself.
The state now requires dispensaries to list the materials used in the carts/pods but provides no information (that I've seen) to indicate whether those materials will be safe over time. I was hoping for a little more clarity from the state on this.
For example, we now know that the Pax Era pods contain:
Casing: Food Grade Plastics
Coil/Heating: Gold Plated Brass, Silica wick, nichrome heater and cotton batting to absorb condensation.
But no information on whether or not it is okay to heat up these elements and inhale any resulting vapor. Or whether or not over time any of these things can lead to lead entering the concentrate.