The Scientific Committees provide the Commission with the scientific advice it needs when preparing policy and proposals relating to consumer safety, public health and the environment. As one of these committees, SCENIHR’s mandate is to question emerging or newly-identified risks on broad, complex or multi-disciplinary issues requiring a comprehensive assessment of risks.
The European Commission Directorate General for Health and Consumer Protection (DG Sanco) wishes to review the scientific basis for the current regulatory framework on tobacco products to include smokeless products.
Smokeless products include moist snuff, oral tobacco, chewing tocacco, and nasal snuff. Studies suggest that smokeless tobacco may pose harm, yet currently the ’Tobacco Products Directive ’ [1] does not prohibit the marketing of such products.
Interested parties are invited to submit by the 12th May 2006:
Recent (2004 onwards) scientific peer reviewed research papers and reviews on this issue.
Other publicly available credible scientific information that may not be easily available and which is directly relevant to this issue.
