CORESTA Meeting, Smoke Science/Product Technology, Freiburg, 2003, STPOST 03
Determination of tobacco specific nitrosamines in tobacco and tobacco products by gas chromatography-thermal energy analysis
MOLA M.; LIONETTI G.; NUNZIATA A.
ETI S.p.A., Research, Chemistry Dept., Rome, Italy.
Nitrosamines are chemical compounds that have been linked to some types of cancer. They are not present in freshly harvested green tobacco but they are primarily formed during drying, curing, aging and especially fermentation, by nitrosation of...