CORESTA reporting

The CORESTA Secretariat has given details of the documents that it has published and the projects that it has launched since March.
The following documents have been published and can be downloaded from the Documents section of the CORESTA website at www.coresta.org.

• Report “Use of Capillary GC Columns for the Determination of Water in Cigarette Mainstream Smoke”
  (2018-03-13) (RAC-157-CTR)
• Report “10th Collaborative Study (2017) for Physical Parameters of Cigarettes and Filters”
  (2018-03-13) (PTM-122-CTR)
• Report “2017 Collaborative Study on Ammonia and Benzo[a]pyrene in Tobacco Products”
  (2018-03-19) (TTPA-150-1-CTR)
• Method No. 79 “Determination of Ammonia in Tobacco and Tobacco Products by Ion Chromatographic Analysis”
  (2018-03-19) (TTPA-150-2-CRM-79)
• Method No. 82 “Determination of Benzo[a]pyrene in Tobacco Products by GC-MS”
  (2018-03-19) (TTPA-150-3-CRM-82)
• Report “2015 Collaborative Study on Ammonia in Mainstream Cigarette Smoke”
  (2018-03-23) (SMA-046-2-CTR)
• Method No. 87 “Determination of Nicotine in Tobacco Products by GC/MS”
  (2018-04-27) (RAC-TTPA-056-2-CRM-87)
• Report “Proficiency Study of Menthol in Cigarettes and Cut Filler”
  (2018-05-03) (RAC-116-0-CTR)

PROJECTS
A full list of active projects is available on the CORESTA website under the Study Groups/Active Projects section:

• Project 178: EVAP SG – Technical Guide for Designing E-Vapour Products and E-Liquids Stability Studies
• Project 180: CORESTA Board – Presentation at the Rhodia Acetow 11th Cigarette Filter Colloquium in Freiburg, Germany, April 2018
• Project 181: IVT SG – Presentation at the 2018 Genetic Toxicology Association Meeting in Newark, DE, USA, May 2018
• Project 182: PUB SG – Factors to Consider in Arriving at Puffing Regime to Represent Intense ENDS Use (commentary for Journal publication)
• Project 183: CORESTA Agro/Phyto – Revision Guide No. 13 – Guidance for Sampling the Tobacco Leaf Supply Chain
• Project 184: EVAP SG – Proficiency Study on the Determination of Metal Compounds in E-Liquids
• Project 185: AA SG – Revision of CORESTA Guide No. 5 Technical Note #01 Maleic Hydrazide