Code of Colorado Regulations
1507 - Department of Public Safety
1507 - Division of Fire Prevention and Control
8 CCR 1507-52 - REDUCED IGNITION PROPENSITY CIGARETTE STANDARDS AND CERTIFICATION
Section 4 - TESTING AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Universal Citation: 8 CO Code Regs 1507-52 ยง 4
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 5, March 10, 2024
4.1. Except as provided in Section 10, no cigarettes shall be sold or offered for sale in this state, or offered for sale or sold to persons located in this state, after July 31, 2009, unless the cigarettes have been tested in accordance with the test method and meet the performance standard specified in this Section 4.
4.2. Testing
4.2.1. Testing of cigarettes shall be
conducted in accordance with ASTM international standard E2187-04, "standard
test method for measuring the ignition strength of cigarettes".
4.2.2. Testing shall be conducted on ten
layers of filter paper.
4.2.3. No
more than twenty-five percent of the cigarettes tested in a test trial in
accordance with this Section 4 shall exhibit full-length burns. Forty replicate
tests shall constitute a complete test trial for each cigarette
tested.
4.2.4. The performance
standard required by this Section 4 shall be applied only to a complete test
trial.
4.2.5. Written
certifications shall be based upon testing conducted by a laboratory that has
been accredited pursuant to standard ISO/IEC 17025 of the International
Organization for Standardization.
4.2.6. A laboratory conducting testing in
accordance with this Section 4 shall implement a quality control and quality
assurance program that includes a procedure that will determine the
repeatability of the testing results and limit the repeatability value to no
greater than nineteen percent.
4.2.7. This Section 4 shall not require
additional testing of cigarettes that have been tested for other purposes in a
manner consistent with this section.
4.3. Testing by the Division
4.3.1. Testing performed or sponsored by the
Division in order to determine a cigarette's compliance with the performance
standard shall be conducted in accordance with Subsection 4.2.
4.3.2. The Division may test cigarettes for
compliance on a random basis.
4.3.3. The Division may test a particular
cigarette brand for compliance based upon complaints or a history of a
particular cigarette brand being involved in starting fires.
4.4. Lowered Permeability Bands
4.4.1. Each cigarette listed in a
certification submitted pursuant to Section 3 that uses lowered permeability
bands in the cigarette paper to achieve compliance with the performance
standard set forth in this Section 4 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 ten millimeters from the filter end of
the tobacco column or ten millimeters from the labeled end of the tobacco
column for non-filtered cigarettes.
4.5. Alternative Testing
4.5.1. A manufacturer of a cigarette that the
Division determines cannot be tested in accordance with the test method
prescribed in 4.2, shall propose a test method and performance standard for the
cigarette to the Division.
4.5.2.
Upon approval of the proposed test method and a determination by the Division
that the performance standard proposed by the manufacturer is equivalent to the
performance standard prescribed in 4.2, the manufacturer may employ such test
method and performance standard to certify such cigarette pursuant to this
Section 4.
4.5.3. If the Division
determines that another state has enacted reduced cigarette ignition propensity
standards that include a test method and performance standard that are
substantially similar to those contained in 4.2, and the Division 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 reduced cigarette ignition
propensity standards of such state's laws or rules under a legal provision
comparable to this Section 4, then the Division shall authorize the
manufacturer to employ the alternative test method and performance standard to
certify such cigarette for sale in Colorado unless the Division demonstrates a
reasonable basis why the alternative test should not be accepted. All other
applicable requirements of this Rule shall apply to the manufacturer.
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