BS ISO 15592-1:2001

This standard BS ISO 15592-1:2001 Fine-cut tobacco and smoking articles made from it. Methods of sampling, conditioning and analysis is classified in these ICS categories:

• 65.160 Tobacco, tobacco products and related equipment

This part of ISO 15592 specifies two methods of sampling a population of fine-cut tobacco manufactured for sale for the preparation of smoking articles.

It provides information on the statistical treatment of data and provides guidance based on practical experience of the order of ranking when a product is sampled in accordance with the specified procedures, in particular, when smoking articles are made from the sampled fine-cut tobacco and smoked for the determination of nicotine-free dry particulate matter (NFDPM).

NOTE Suitable procedures for the determination of NFDPM will be described in ISO 15592-3.¹⁾