New achievement of the Expert Center: Thanks to new equipment, the experts of the Expert Center are expanding the scope of the Center’s activity by establishing — through an exclusive chemical expert examination — the presence of nicotine in terms of quality and quantity
From this point forth, the "Expert Center" of the Ministry of Justice to conduct
exclusive expert examinations in new areas.
The latest devices and equipment will help make it possible to conduct botanical and
chemical examinations of the tobacco in raw material contained in cigarettes and the
ready-made tobacco product. The botanical examination helps determine the
qualitative features of the tobacco, as well as the presence of other plants and the
substances not intended for cigarettes, while the chemical examination helps
determine the presence of other qualitative and chemical substances in nicotine. The
Expert Center will be conducting this type of expert examination for the first time ever.