The tobacco industry is becoming increasingly regulated since the enactment of the US Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA) in 2009 which gave the Food and Drug Administration jurisdiction over tobacco products, and the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which came into effect in 2005, and to which more than 170 countries are Parties.This talk will examine the data about tobacco products and tobacco smoke toxicants that have been collected previously, as well as how analytical methods have been developed in this field. This will be contrasted with the data and analytical methods that urgently need to be developed today to ensure that regulatory decisions made regarding tobacco products are informed by a sound scientific base.

Steps towards the analytical standards required for science-based tobacco product regulation

244th National Meeting (2012)

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