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Additives that increase addicitivness and attractivness of tobacco products
Project
Project code: BfR-CPS-08-1322-535
Contract period: 01.03.2013
- 31.12.2017
Purpose of research: Applied research
Consumption of tobacco is the leading cause of death, illness and impoverishment. To reduce the demand and supply of tobacco products, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was founded. The convention was adopted by Germany, leading to obligations and efforts aimed to follow their guidelines at national and international levels. In the guideline to Article 9, addictiveness and attractiveness were defined as components of the hazard potential of tobacco products. Besides toxicity, both addictiveness and attractive-ness should now be considered in risk assessment. Attractiveness covers all features of tobacco products that promote sales to consumers or certain consumer groups. The success to introduce these novel and extended concepts of hazard for tobacco products in an international framework convention has to be accredited to the European Commission, who had also initiated an expert opinion by SCENIHR (2). However, precise criteria to apply these concepts are still lacking. The prohibition of characterizing flavors in Europe does require a proper analytical assessment of aroma compounds, in order to avoid classifications based on sensory perception by individuals only. Addictiveness might depend on pharmacological properties of additives that would lead to an increase of nicotine absorption or promote deeper inhalation of tobacco smoke. It now becomes important to develop a scientific framework based on reliable methods that defines addictiveness and attractiveness as relevant health hazard in addition to the well characterized toxicological properties of tobacco.
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Subjects
- Food Processing
