What is ISO 16055 – Smoking machines about?
Smoking machines are mechanical devices for the standardized smoking of cigarettes. These are meant for facilitating the determination of nicotine and condensate yields of cigarettes according to strictly controlled parameters such as puff duration, puff volume, number of puffs, and butt length.
ISO 16055 describes the requirements for a monitor test piece for smoking machines. ISO 16055 also describes its use.
Who is ISO 15886-3 - Smoking machines for?
ISO 15886-3 on smoking machines is useful for:
- The tobacco industry
- Quality control personnel
- Product development personnel
Why should you use ISO 16055 - Smoking machines?
Monitor test pieces are used to monitor the stability of the analytical processes involved when using a cigarette-smoking machine for routine analyses in accordance with ISO 3308 or ISO 20778.
As monitor test pieces are produced for process-control purposes, the product design is chosen to give smoke yields which are well suited to these purposes and thus may well not conform to official declaration restrictions.
The routine use of monitor test pieces can vary from laboratory to laboratory and between the two commonly used types of analytical smoking machines. The general principle is to evaluate the consistency of the values of the essential parameters by using control charts.
ISO 16055 guides you with requirements for monitor test pieces that are used to assess whether the analytical process related to the machine-smoking of cigarettes is in statistical control.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS ISO 16055:2021 supersedes ISO 16055:2019, which is withdrawn. BS ISO 16055:2021 includes some editorial and technical changes with respect to ISO 16055:2019.
These include:
- The title and scope have been modified by adding “for smoking” machine
- The former Annex A (Control charts) has been deleted and the subsequent annex has been moved
- A reference to ISO 7870‑2 has been added in place of the omitted Annex A
