OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE BY LA TABACCHERIA ESTRATTI DI TABACCO, 27/07/2021
We want to officially reply to some assertions we came to know about last Friday, 23rd of July, which might appear to refer to our company, more specifically to our manufacturing technique we use to produce the lines Organic 4Pod and Extreme 4Pod-White, named “SELECTIVE PURIFICATION” (our registered trademark).
The assertions we are referring to are clearly implying that, “to selectively purify the extracts” there might be an use of:
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We feel the need to reply to such spurious and unfounded allegations with two types of considerations:
1) When the job is done by a competent firm, investing in cutting-edge machinery, in research and development, in normative consultancy and thorough and costly analyses, the most obvious thing to do is to completely avoid this absolutely not safe approach.
Our products are 100% from plant origin and all of our manufacturing techniques are based on innovative principles of mechanics and physics WITHOUT ANY ADDITION OR USE OF DANGEROUS CHEMICAL ADDITIVES. Our extraction processes are so effective only thanks to our investments in research, development and cutting-edge machinery.
All of this is further supported by investments in normative consultancy on the National and European regulations, together with thorough and meticulous analyses, on all of our tobacco extracts, we periodically commission to independent accredited laboratories of research.
As a matter of fact, we want to highlight that on our tobacco extracts, since the very beginning of our business, we effect microbiological analyses (bacteria, yeasts and molds), heavy metals, mycotoxins, aflatoxins, ochratoxins, amines, nitrosamines, pesticides residues.
For all these reasons, it is evident that the choice of using non-suitable products, such as the abovementioned ones, would never be suiting our company and would not do any justice to the research, the investments and the sacrifices we made to bring to the market our best interpretation of the top possible technology and innovation on a tobacco extract, be it the Tobacco Extracts Line or the Extreme 4Pod-White Line.
2) On Friday itself, we sent to the laboratory of analysis 3 samples, lot 171-White Latakia, 174-White Virginia (to analyse two tobaccos we could consider as extreme opposites, one being a dark fire-cured while the other a blond air-cured), together with 172-White Kentucky, selected as a random sample among our White products for another kind of test we will explain subsequently.
For these samples, we required to analyse not just one, but all the possible organic solvents. This analysis is actually completely pointless for us (it has the same logic of looking for paracetamol on a tobacco extract, it would be absurd!) but we did it nonetheless, exclusively to reassure our clients who obviously, not being chemists, may have been in doubt. A manufacturer laboratory should only research these substances which could be reasonably found in the final product, in an analytical and rational way, as it would be nonsensical to research substances which for no reason could be part of the final product unless intentionally added.
Of course we cannot replicate what we did today for every “rumour”, but in this case we are not discussing simple assertions, but very severe and allusive statements towards us which may, furthermore, create uncertainty and needless concerns for our customers.
Therefore, together with considering to evaluate the subsistence of profiles for any adequate legal action, also to protect our reputation and brand image we want to protect even from any indirect and allusive allegations, we wanted to share the evidence from the analyses we commissioned, which we received today, and we attach as a pdf to this official communique. |
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