EU OFFICIALS CONSIDER WHETHER TO REGULATE POLONIUM IN CIGARETTES
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is considering whether to regulate the contamination of cigarettes with polonium 210, the highly radioactive substance used to murder former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko. Officials are reacting to research produced in the American Journal of Public Health last month (August) confirming that trace elements are found in tobacco leaves making cigarettes. Brussels is not thought likely to control its presence through the European Union 2001 tobacco ingredients directive, but maybe mandate that labelling warns consumers of ...
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