Last updated: May 17, 2022
Key Terms
Ingredient
"Ingredient" means a substance (with the exception of the tobacco leaf and other parts of the tobacco) that is used in the manufacture of tobacco products and is present in the final tobacco product, including in a modified form.
The definition of "ingredient" is significant because the EEC Technical Regulations ban certain ingredients used in the manufacture of tobacco products.
Includes tobacco, components (e.g. paper, filter), including materials used to manufacture those components, additives, processing aids, residual substances found in tobacco (following storage and processing), and substances that migrate from the packaging material into the product (contaminants are not part of the ingredients). (FCTC Art. 9 & 10 Partial Guidelines)
