What We Do
Meeting the Highest Standards with Accredited Scientific Services
About Scientific Services
We continually invest in our smoking laboratory to ensure our customers have access to the latest testing technology.
We have linear and rotary smoking machines capable of capturing mainstream and side-stream chemical compounds for cigarettes, cigars, and heated tobacco product analysis.
Smoking Laboratory
Testing of Heated Tobacco Products
- Non-Lit
- FDA
- Smoke
- E-Cigarette
- Ignition Propensity
- Tobacco
- Cigarette & Filter Rod Physical
Filtrona Scientific Services provides a series of commercial tests to analyse the constituents of tobacco for cigars, Roll-Your-Own, nicotine delivery products, and the physical parameters of your brand.
Test are divided into three ranges: GOTHIATEK® , physical testing, and tobacco testing.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft HPHC list is divided into two main areas – mainstream smoke and tobacco.
Filtrona Scientific Services provides a series of commercial tests to analyse the constituents of cigarette smoke.
Tests are divided into two ranges – mainstream tobacco smoke and side-stream tobacco smoke, including those required by ANVISA regulation.
We have been testing e-cigarettes and e-liquids since their inception. Our testing capabilities are listed here and we can offer bespoke method development for other compounds on request.
The procedure is applicable to cigarettes that burn along the length of the tobacco column and equivalent to those described in ISO 12863 and ASTM E2187.
Tests are available for various types of tobacco including cigars, Roll-Your-Own and smokeless tobacco.
A comprehensive set of measurements for your brand.
Combustible Tobacco Analysis
Our laboratory is equipped to test over 50 chemical compounds in main stream and side stream smoke, and more than 160 chemical compounds in tobacco. The tests include:
- TNCO
- Eugenol
- Menthol
- TSNA’s
- Carbonyls
- Phenols
- Metals
- Volatile / Semi Volatile Organic Compounds
- Nitrogen Oxide
- BaP
- Ammonia
- Aromatic Amines
- Nitrogen Oxide
- HCN
- Esters
- Acids
- Humectants
- Pyrazines
- Alcohols
To find out more on how you can take advantage of this opportunity, download our brochure here.
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As a partner, Filtrona’s custom solutions set us apart.
Our expertise in design and production allow us to create solutions that exceed our customers’ expectations by perfectly meeting their every requirement.
