Govt to set up labs to test tobacco contents and emissions

zeenews.india.com – 6de Mayo de 2015 – India

New Delhi: Government will set up an apex tobacco research lab and four other regional labs to test the the contents and emissions of various tobacco products like cigarettes and bidis and set a limit to the toxic chemicals in them.

"The aim is to evaluate both smoking and smokeless tobacco products. These labs would be testing the identified chemicals of priority like nicotine, ammonia and carbon monoxide for which the WHO's TobLabNet has already established Standard Operating Precedures (SOPs).

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