NEW DELHI : The National Tobacco Testing laboratories apart from testing tobacco samples for nicotine will also undertake relevant research and generate scientific data on products’ constituents and explore ways of safe disposal of tobacco related wastes. The officials in union ministry of health and family welfare have said that the research work has to be done as stipulated in Article 9 and 10 of Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC) of World Health Organization (WHO). The laboratories are mandated to test products suspected to contain tobacco or its variants in violation of identified The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003 or COTPA, 2003 and food safety laws. Such pr... [Read more]