Thermophilic denitrification of tobacco

Abstract From the Canadian patent

High temperature processes and thermophilic organisms for use in those processes for reducing the levels of certain nitrogen-containing compounds in tobacco materials. Tobacco materials are contacted with at least one thermophilic organism characterized by an anaerobic dissimilatory, meta-, bolic pathway for denitrification of tobacco materials under anaerobic and high temperature conditions that promote such metabolism. Tobacco materials treated in accordance with these high temperature processes and thermophilic organisms, when incorporated into a smoking product deliver, a significantly reduced amount of oxide of nitrogen in smoke. Moreover, such tobacco materials also afford the product …