101B.4 - TEST METHOD -- PERFORMANCE STANDARD -- TEST REPORTS.
101B.4 TEST METHOD -- PERFORMANCE STANDARD -- TEST
REPORTS.
1. a. Testing of cigarettes shall be conducted in accordance
with ASTM (American society for testing and materials) international
standard E2187-04, standard test method for measuring the ignition
strength of cigarettes.
b. The department may adopt a subsequent ASTM international
standard test method for measuring the ignition strength of
cigarettes upon a finding that the subsequent method 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 in accordance with ASTM
international standard E2187-04 and the performance standard in this
section.
2. Testing shall be conducted on ten layers of filter paper.
3. The performance standard shall require that no more than
twenty-five percent of the cigarettes tested in a test trial shall
exhibit full-length burns.
4. Forty replicate tests shall comprise a complete test trial for
each cigarette tested.
5. The performance standard required by this section shall only
be applied to a complete test trial.
6. a. Testing shall be conducted by a laboratory that has
been accredited pursuant to international organization for
standardization/international electrotechnical commission standard
17025 or other comparable accreditation standard required by the
department.
b. Laboratories conducting testing in accordance with this
section shall implement a quality control and quality assurance
program that includes a procedure that will determine the
repeatability of the testing results. The testing repeatability
shall be no greater than nineteen one-hundredths.
7. This section shall not require additional testing if
cigarettes are tested consistent with this chapter for any other
purpose.
8. Each cigarette listed in a certification submitted in
accordance with section 101B.5 that uses lowered permeability bands
in the cigarette paper to achieve compliance with the performance
standard pursuant to this section shall have at least two nominally
identical bands on the paper surrounding the tobacco column. At
least one complete band shall be located at least fifteen millimeters
from the lighting end of the cigarette. For cigarettes on which the
bands are positioned by design, there shall be at least two bands
fully located at least fifteen millimeters from the lighting end and
either ten millimeters from the filter end of the tobacco column, or
ten millimeters from the labeled end of the tobacco column for
nonfiltered cigarettes.
9. a. The manufacturer of a cigarette that the department
determines cannot be tested in accordance with the test method
prescribed in this section shall propose a test method and
performance standard for the cigarette to the department. Upon
approval of the proposed test method and a determination by the
department that the performance standard proposed by the manufacturer
is equivalent to the performance standard prescribed in this section,
the manufacturer may employ the test method and performance standard
to certify the cigarette in accordance with section 101B.5.
b. If the department determines that another state has
enacted reduced cigarette ignition propensity standards that include
a test method and performance standard that are the same as those
contained in this chapter and the department finds that the officials
responsible for implementing those requirements have approved the
proposed alternative test method and performance standard for a
particular cigarette proposed by a manufacturer as meeting the fire
safety standards of that state's law or regulation under a legal
provision comparable to this subsection, the department shall
authorize that manufacturer to employ the alternative test method and
performance standard to certify that cigarette for sale in this
state, unless the department demonstrates a reasonable basis why the
alternative test should not be accepted under this chapter. All
other applicable requirements of this chapter shall apply to the
manufacturer.
10. A manufacturer shall maintain copies of the reports of all
tests conducted on all cigarettes offered for sale for a period of
three years and shall make copies of the reports available to the
department and the office of the attorney general upon written
request.
11. Testing performed or sponsored by the department to determine
a cigarette's compliance with the performance standard required by
this section shall be conducted in accordance with this section. Section History: Recent Form
2007 Acts, ch 166, §4; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §18
Referred to in § 101B.2, 101B.3, 101B.5, 101B.8