3739.03.
Laboratory ignition propensity testing
| (A) |
A
manufacturer shall have a laboratory conduct the testing required under
division (B) of this section. The laboratory that the manufacturer uses for the
testing shall be accredited pursuant to the international organization for
standardization and international electrotechnical commission standard 17025 of
the international organization for standardization, or another comparable
accreditation standard required by the state fire marshal. The laboratory shall
implement a quality control and quality assurance program and shall use that
program when conducting the testing required under division (B) of this
section. |
| (B) |
A manufacturer shall
have the laboratory described in division (A) of this section test the
manufacturer's cigarettes in accordance with all of the following requirements:
| (1) |
The laboratory shall test the cigarettes
in accordance with the American society of testing and materials standard
E2187-04, titled "standard test method for measuring ignition strength of
cigarettes" or any subsequent standard adopted by the state fire marshal in
accordance with division (E) of this section. |
| (2) |
The laboratory shall test the cigarettes
on ten layers of filter paper. |
| (3) |
Not more than twenty-five per cent of the cigarettes tested in a test trial
shall exhibit full-length burns. |
|
| (C) |
The performance standard required under division
(B)(3) of this section shall apply only to a complete test trial. For purposes
of this division and division (B)(3) of this section, "test trial" means forty
replicate tests for each type of cigarette tested. |
| (D) |
The requirements described in division (B) of this
section shall not be construed to require additional cigarette testing if a
manufacturer tests cigarettes in accordance with the requirements listed in
that division for any other purposes other than the purposes specified in that
division. |
| (E) |
The state fire
marshal may adopt any American society of testing and materials standard used
to measure the ignition strength of cigarettes that takes effect after the
effective date of this section if the state fire marshal determines that that
subsequent standard does not result in a change in the percentage of
full-length burns exhibited by any tested cigarette when compared to the
percentage of full-length burns the same cigarette would exhibit when tested
using the American society of testing and materials standard E2187-04
referenced in division (B)(1) of this section and the performance standard
specified in division (B)(3) of this section. |
Cite as (Casemaker) R.C.
§ 3739.03
History. Effective Date: 2008 HB500
04-07-2009.