NicoTAR services can be provided by facility personnel:
- Assistance in selection, design, and execution of NicoTAR experiments
- Assistance in processing and interpreting NicoTAR data
- Training and instruction for all users
A wide range of NicoTAR assays are available, including:
- Nicotine analysis in combustible tobacco products, smokeless tobacco products, shisha, and Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) products (including patches, gums, lozenges, etc.)
- Nicotine analysis in Mainstream (MS) and Sidestream (SS) tobacco smoke
- Nicotine analysis in e-cigarette vapor or solutions/cartridges
- Nicotine analysis in indoor air (marker of secondhand exposure)
- Measurement of particulates (PM2.5 and PM10) in indoor air (markers of secondhand exposure)
- Analysis of nicotine deposited on surfaces (marker of thirdhand exposure)
- Cotinine and nicotine analysis in urine, saliva, and plasma (markers of exposure)
- Carbon monoxide measurement in exhaled breath (verification of smoking status)
- Moisture in tobacco product
- Cigarette ventilation and pressure drop
- Cigarette paper porosity
- Air-liquid interface systems to expose cell lines to tobacco smoke and e-cigarette vapors
- Systems for whole body exposure of small animals to secondhand tobacco smoke
- Testing metals (As, Cd, and Pb) in whole tobacco and e-liquids using Health Canada method T-306
Qualified users enjoy 24 hour/7 day a week open access to:
- All equipment
- Data processing facilities: PCs
Hourly Charge Rates for Service and Usage
Please contact Dr. Goniewicz at maciej.goniewicz@roswellpark.org for detailed charge rates. Investigators are billed on a monthly basis for equipment use and services provided.
Scheduling and Ordering
Investigators should contact Dr. Maciej Goniewicz at maciej.goniewicz@roswellpark.org prior to submitting any samples, to discuss the assay required and timeframe for competition of requested tasks.
Investigators should contact Noel Leigh at noel.leigh@roswellpark.org for scheduling information, scheduling of time for use of the GC-NPD/ GC-MSMS, smoking machine or workstations.