CORESTA Meeting, Smoke Science/Product Technology, 2023, Cancun, IG 02; CORESTA Meeting, Agronomy/Phytopathology, 2023, Cancun, IG 02 (also presented at TSRC 2023)
Potential ultra-low nicotine limit in tobacco – can we meet it?
FISHER A.M.(1); FISHER C.R.(1); YANG S.(2); PATRA B.(1); SLONE S.(3); JI H.(1); KINNEY J.(1)
(1) Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.; (2) United States Department of Agriculture, Fargo, ND, U.S.A.; (3) Dr. Bing Zhang Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
The FDA has sought comments on a possible nicotine limit of 0.3-0.5 mg/g in the filler of cigarettes. Over the years, we have tested the conventional low alkaloid (LA) nic1nic2 mutants, agronomic practices known to lower alkaloids, and a combination...