ISO/TC 126/SC 3/WG 3 - Analytical methods for the testing of emissions of vapour products

This document specifies a method of measurement of the masses of e-liquid vaporised and the aerosol collected from vapour product(s). It does not specify the vapour product(s), the vapour product(s) operational settings or, e-liquid to be used. NOTE Application of this document can be required as a preliminary step for subsequent analyses.

This document specifies a method for the determination of the amount of selected carbonyl compounds (formaldehyde and acetaldehyde) as their 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazones in vapour product emissions using reversed phase liquid chromatography coupled with ultraviolet or diode array detector (LC-UV or LC-DAD). This document does not include the analysis of other carbonyl compounds, such as acrolein and crotonaldehyde, due to previous work indicated issues associated with stability of these compounds in the e-liquid solutions that were used to evaluate method performance[4].

This document specifies an analytical method to quantify nicotine of collected vapour product emissions by gas chromatography.