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A portable, in-field screening tool would also allow government officials to swiftly identify adulterated electronic cigarette e-liquids containing illicit flavorings such as menthol. Our approach involved developing canonical discriminant analysis (CDA) models to differentiate formulation components, including e-liquid bases and nicotine, which the eNose accurately identified. Additionally, models were created using e-liquid bases adulterated with menthol and VEA. The eNose and CDA model correctly identified menthol-containing e-liquids in all instances but were only able to identify VEA in 66.6% of cases. To demonstrate the applicability of this model to a commercial product, a Virginia Tobacco JUUL product was adulterated with menthol and VEA. A CDA model was constructed and, when tested against the prediction set, it was able to identify samples adulterated with menthol 91.6% of the time and those containing VEA in 75% of attempts. To test the ability of this approach to distinguish commercial e-liquid brands, a model using six commercial products was generated and tested against randomized samples on the same day as model creation. The CDA model had a cross-validation of 91.7%. When randomized samples were presented to the model on different days, cross-validation fell to 41.7%, suggesting that interday variability was problematic. However, a subsequently developed support vector machine (SVM) identification algorithm was deployed, increasing the cross-validation to 84.7%. A prediction set was challenged against this model, yielding an accuracy of 94.4%. Altered Elf Bar and Hyde IQ formulations were used to simulate counterfeit products, and in all cases, the brand identification model did not classify these samples as their reference product. This study demonstrates the eNose\u2019s capability to distinguish between various odors emitted from e-liquids, highlighting its potential to identify counterfeit and adulterated products in the field without the need to generate and test the aerosol emitted from an electronic cigarette.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24175676","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,2]],"date-time":"2024-09-02T12:54:42Z","timestamp":1725281682000},"page":"5676","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Applications of an Electrochemical Sensory Array Coupled with Chemometric Modeling for Electronic Cigarettes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1646-366X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bryan","family":"Eng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Richard N.","family":"Dalby","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"475","DOI":"10.15585\/mmwr.mm7218a1","article-title":"Tobacco product use among adults\u2014United States, 2021","volume":"72","author":"Cornelius","year":"2023","journal-title":"MMWR Morb. 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