| Analyte(s) |
Product Type |
Instrumentation |
References |
| Nicotine/Nicotine Alkaloids |
All Tobacco Products |
Flow Analyzer |
1 |
| Capillary Electrophoresis |
2 |
| Total Reducing Sugars (Sucrose, Fructose, and Glucose) |
Cigars
Cigarettes
Roll-your-own
Pipe tobacco |
Flow Analyzer |
3 |
| Ion Chromatography |
4, 5 |
| Reducing Sugars (Fructose and Glucose) |
Cigars
Cigarettes
Roll-your-own
Pipe tobacco |
Flow Analyzer |
6 |
| Ion Chromatography |
4, 5 |
| Sieve Test |
Chewing tobacco
Snuff |
Electric 8 inch sieve shaker, ROTAP (Reg. TM) |
7 |
| Product weight |
Cigars
Cigarettes |
Environmental chamber
and analytical balance |
8 |
- Astoria-Pacific Method A262 (contact Astoria-Pacific International for more information)
- Clarke, M.B., (2002) Quantitation of Nicotine in Tobacco Products by Capillary Electrophoresis J. AOAC Intl, Vol 85, No. 1
- Astoria-Pacific Method A250 (reproduced with permission from Astoria-Pacific International).
- Zook, C.M., Patel, P.M., LaCourse, W.R., Ralapati, S, (1996) Characterization of Tobacco Products by High-Performance Anion Exchange Chromatography-Pulsed Amperometric Detection, J. Agric. Food Chem., Vol 44, No. 7
- Dionex Technical Note 20, Analysis of Carbohydrates by High Performance Anion Exchange Chromatography with Pulsed Amperometric Detection (2000), www.dionex.com
- Astoria-Pacific Procedure A041 (contact Astoria-Pacific International for more information)
- ATF Procedure 87-4, Testing Methods Used to Distinguish Between Chewing Tobacco and Snuff
- TTB directive to industry (pending)
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