diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ebe500253..8cb32903a 100755
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ### 1.4.4
 - Fixed Disk Manipulator crashing due to empty stack (raoulvdberge)
+- Fixed issue where empty stacks show up in the system (raoulvdberge)
 
 ### 1.4.3
 - Updated Forge to 2282 (raoulvdberge)
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/raoulvdberge/refinedstorage/apiimpl/network/node/externalstorage/StorageItemExternal.java b/src/main/java/com/raoulvdberge/refinedstorage/apiimpl/network/node/externalstorage/StorageItemExternal.java
index 4f1d642df..31ca42468 100755
--- a/src/main/java/com/raoulvdberge/refinedstorage/apiimpl/network/node/externalstorage/StorageItemExternal.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/raoulvdberge/refinedstorage/apiimpl/network/node/externalstorage/StorageItemExternal.java
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public abstract class StorageItemExternal implements IStorage<ItemStack> {
 
             // If we exceed the cache size, than that means this items is added
             if (i >= cache.size()) {
-                if (actual != null) {
+                if (!actual.isEmpty()) {
                     network.getItemStorageCache().add(actual, actual.getCount(), false);
                 }