IS 16121 : 2023/ISO 3402 : 2023 Tobacco and Tobacco Products - Atmosphere for Conditioning and Testing
NATIONAL FOREWORD
This Indian Standard (First Revision) which is identical to ISO 3402 : 2023 'Tobacco and tobacco products - Atmosphere for conditioning and testing' issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards, after the draft finalized by the Tobacco and Tobacco Products Sectional Committee had been approved by the Food and Agriculture Division Council.
This standard was first published in 2013. This revision has been undertaken to align it with the latest edition of ISO 3402 : 2023. Apart from the editorial changes, the major changes introduced in this revision are as follows:
a) The terms and definitions have been harmonized with IS 16023 : 2021/ISO 4387 : 2019, and these terms have been consistently used throughout the document; and
b) Duration of conditioning has been revised for clarity; text describing long term storage has been removed since this document is not for storage of tobacco products.
The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:
a) Wherever the words 'International Standard' appear referring to this standard, they should be read as 'Indian Standard'; and
b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.