BS ISO BRITISHSTANDARD 15592-2:2001 Fine-cut tobacco and smoking articles made from it Methods of sampling, conditioning and analysis - Part 2: Atmosphere for conditioning and testing ICS 65.160 BSi NOCOPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTEDBY COPYRIGHT LAW BSISO15592-2:2001 National foreword This British Standard reproduces verbatimIS015592-2:2001 andimplements it astheUKnational standard. The UKparticipation initspreparation was entrusted toTechnical Committee AW/4o, Tobacco and tobacco products,which has the responsibility to: aid enquirers to understand the text; present to the responsible international/European committee any enquiries on the interpretation, or proposals for change, and keep the UK interests informed; monitor related international andEuropean developments and promulgate them in the UK. A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary. Cross-references The British Standards which implement international publications referred to in this document may befound in the BsI Standards Catalogueunder the section entitled"International Standards Correspondence Index", or by using the“Find" facility of the BSI Standards Electronic Catalogue. A British Standard does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users of British Standards are responsiblefor their correct application. Compliancewith a British Standard does not ofitselfconfer immunity fromlegalobligations. This British Standard, having been prepared under the Summary of pages direction of the Consumer Products and Services Sector This document comprises a front cover, an inside front cover, the ISO title page, Committee,waspublished pages iitoiv,pages1to5,andaback cover. under the authority of the The BSI copyright date displayed in this document indicates when the Standards Committee and comes into effect on document was last issued. 15June2001 Amendmentsissuedsincepublication Amd. No. Date Comments CBSI06-2001 ISBN0580375919 ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 15592-2 First edition 2001-03-15 Fine-cut tobacco and smoking articles made from it Methods of sampling, conditioning and analysis - Part 2: Atmosphere for conditioning and testing Tabac de fine coupe etobjets confectionnésa partirde ce type de tabac- Methodes d'échantillonnage,deconditionnement etd'analyse Partie2:Atmospheredeconditionnementetd'essai Referencenumber ISO 15592-2:2001(E) ISO ISO 15592-2:2001(E) = ISO15592-2:2001(E) Foreword ISO (the International OrganizationforStandardization) isa worldwide federation of national standards bodies (iSO Commission (IEC)on all matters of electrotechnical standardization. Draft International Standards adoptedby the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75%of the member bodies casting avote patent rights. IsO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. products. IsO 15592 consists of the following parts, under the general title Fine-cut tobacco and smoking articles made from itMethodsofsampling,conditioningandanalysis: Part1: Sampling 一 Part2:Atmosphere for conditioningand testing Part 3:Determinationof totalparticulate matterof smoking articlesusingaroutineanalytical smokingmachine Part4:Classificationofwrappers Part5:Fine-cuttobaccotobeusedwithspecifiedwrappers Part 6: Effect of incorporation of loose filters Annex A of this part of ISO 15592 is for information only ili ISO15592-2:2001(E) Introduction ISO3402was based on the1991revision of CORESTARecommended MethodNo.21and was produced inorder to specify a standard atmosphere for conditioning leaf tobacco, and cut tobacco destined for the manufacture of cigarettes and for the manufactured cigarettes themselves. Fine-cut tobacco is produced and sold at much higher moisture levels than tobacco used for manufacturing cigarettes. Consequently isO 3402 is not applicable to fine-cut tobacco or smoking a