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The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority (CAFIA) checks also cigarettes, tobacco and other tobacco products. By the end of last year, CAFIA inspectors examined their quality which is determined by nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide content. They also focused on labelling both as to the correctness and veracity of information specified on the packaging and as to the obligation to stamp tobacco products.

28 cigarette samples and 11 samples of cigarette tobacco and 9 samples of pipe tobacco were taken by the inspectors at direct importers, producers, in wholesale stores and in stalls selling tobacco products. In two cases the inspectors took selected cigarette types in market halls in the cross-border region in order to compare their composition with the same brands of cigarettes taken in wholesale warehouses.

Laboratory analysis established that four cigarette samples had lower nicotine content than specified on the packaging. Higher weight than the real one was displayed on the labels of four samples of cigarette tobacco and a sample of pipe tobacco. When comparing the parameters of cigarettes of the same brand taken in the market hall and in the wholesale warehouse, minimum differences in nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide content were identified by the Inspection Authority.

The experts from the Prague laboratory of the Food Inspection Authority introduced methods for testing ingredients in cigarettes, which are in accordance with ISO standards, last year. The CAFIA managed to obtain and install rotary smoking machine that can measure the content of substances monitored in cigarettes.

The checks on cigarettes and other tobacco products will continue throughout the whole year.

Photo: The smoking machine