DETECTION OF NITRATES FROM TOBACCO FOR CORRELATION WITH THE AMOUNT OF TOBACCO-SPECIFIC NITROSAMINES WITHIN THE TOBACCO

摘要

A system (10) for detecting nitrates in a tobacco sample (12) having a light source (20), and a detection device (30). The light source (20) provides a beam of light incident to a tobacco sample (12), which is reflected from the tobacco sample (12) to the detection device (30). A computing device (40) computes the amount of nitrates within the tobacco sample (12) based on data received from the detection device (30) to correlate the amount of tobacco-specific nitrosamines within the tobacco sample (12).