Tobacco Reporting Regulations — 12
Report 12 (1) The report on tobacco constituents must set out, by brand, the information referred to in subsection (7) in respect of each type of consumer tobacco product that a manufacturer sells during a year. Method of collecting data (2) The applicable official method listed in column 2 of Schedule 1 must be used to collect data on a constituent. Sampling (3) The sampling of a consumer tobacco product for the purpose of determining the amount of a constituent is to be performed in accordance with the following procedures: (a) in the case of cigarettes, the procedures described in items A and B of Table 1 of the International Organization for Standardization standard ISO 8243, entitled Cigarettes — Sampling , as amended from time to time; (b) in the case of bidis, cigars, kreteks or little cigars, the procedures referred to in paragraph (a), modified in the following manner: (i) in the case of bidis, kreteks, and little cigars, (A) a reference to a “cigarette” is to be read as a reference to the type of consumer tobacco product being sampled, and (B) a reference to a “carton” is to be read as a reference to 200 units of the type of consumer tobacco product being sampled, and (ii) in the case of cigars, (A) a reference to a “cigarette” is to be read as a reference to cigar, (B) a reference to a “sale unit” is to be read as a reference to one cigar, and (C) a reference to a “carton” is to be read as a reference to 200 grams of the cigars being sampled; (c) in the case of cigarette tobacco, the procedures described in the International Organization for Standardization standard ISO 15592-1, entitled Fine-cut tobacco and smoking articles made from it — Methods of sampling, conditioning and analysis — Part 1: Sampling , as amended from time to time; and (d) in the case of pipe tobacco or smokeless tobacco, the procedures described in paragraph (c), modified so that a reference to “fine-cut tobacco” is to be read as a reference to the type of consumer tobacco product being sampled. Preparation (4) The sample is to be prepared in accordance with Official Method T-402, entitled Preparation of Sample for Testing of Cigarettes, Tobacco Sticks, Cigarette Tobacco, Cigars, Little Cigars, Kreteks, Bidis, Leaf, Pipe and Smokeless Tobacco , prepared by the Department of Health, dated December 31, 2017. Replicates (5) The mean, standard deviation and 95% confidence limits of the amount of each constituent must be based on three replicates of a sample. Adjustment for moisture (6) The amount of each constituent must be corrected for moisture in accordance with the AOAC International Official Method 966.02, entitled Loss on Drying (Moisture) in Tobacco , published in Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC International , as amended from time to time. Content of report (7) The report must set out the following information: (a) in the case of bidis, cigarettes, cigars, kreteks and little cigars, the weight of tobacco in milligrams per unit; (b) the name of each constituent in the consumer tobacco product; (c) the mean, standard deviation and 95% confidence limits of the amount of each constituent in milligrams, micrograms or nanograms (i) per gram of the consumer tobacco product, and (ii) in the case of bidis, cigarettes, cigars, kreteks and little cigars, per unit; (d) the pH of the consumer tobacco product, determined in accordance with Official Method T-310, entitled Determination of the pH of Whole Tobacco , prepared by the Department of Health, dated December 31, 2017; and (e) the percentage of moisture in the consumer tobacco product, determined in accordance with the method referred to in subsection (6). Exception — short report (8) A manufacturer may, instead of submitting a report with respect to all constituents in a consumer tobacco product, submit a report in accordance with this section solely on the amounts of nicotine, nitrosamines, nickel, lead, cadmium, chromium, arsenic, selenium and mercury in the product, if (a) in the case of c