Share Health Ministry notifies setting up of tobacco testing labs Friday, 06 September 2019 | PNS | New Delhi The Union Health Ministry on Thursday issued a much-awaited notification on the setting up of tobacco testing labs for the purpose of testing the nicotine and tar contents in cigarettes and other tobacco products. These labs are being set up in order to strengthen the enforcement of Cigarettes & Other Tobacco Products (COTPA) 2003 to curb tobacco consumption in the country. The tobacco testing labs to be set up in Mumbai, Guwahati and Uttar Pradesh would check for nicotine, ammonia and carbon monoxide for which the World Health Organization (WHO's) TobLabNet has already established S... [Read more]