Story of my life

[GN Tobacco Sweden AB]

Hey GN, sorry to hear about G I was curios to know what has microbiology and bacteria have to do with snus?

Microbiology is the study of microscopic organism (I suppose there aren't any in snus, I've read recent studies of how nicotine is actually a great antibacterial agent, bacteria can hardly be in snus) just wondering..

Would you move back to Russia?

I'd love to live there

No I will not my home is Sweden I live here nearly 20 yers if I will move then to Switzerland you know rich busterds love that place ... and my mom needs to let me as well

[GN Tobacco Sweden AB]

GN, I hope things work out for G and he's back with you soon. Can't wait to hear the rest of your story.

Thank you Bill I am done with my story , now I am waiting for others stories

[bill77.017]

GN, I hope things work out for G and he's back with you soon. Can't wait to hear the rest of your story.

[Darwin]

Precious of course there are microbes in snus but since they inhabit every organic material on earth, and many non organic ones, this is hardly a serious problem. As the piece Extreme posted shows the important part of curing, vis-a-vis carcinogens, is to minimize bacterial and chemical reactions that increase TSNAs. Naturally when snus was first sold to the public manufacturers had no notion whatsoever of such things and so were entirely unconcerned. The fact that snus is about the safest way to consume tobacco, for sundry reasons, is in truth a happy accident and as such that makes me very happy indeed, as it should all of us. Happy accident or not that should not prevent the safety of snus being used in advertising and as counter ammunition in the great anti-tobacco wars of today. Also it's perfectly legitimate and praiseworthy for manufacturers to work on lowering TSNAs farther even if such lowering has minimal effects on health issues.

As far as the nicotine in snus being hostile to many micro-organisms this may well be true but since microbes have evolved to inhabit the most extreme environments found on the planet it is a certainty that nicotine, or any other anti-microbial substance, will not suppress all of them.

[Frosted]

Edited.

On the meeting at F.W. Rickard Seed In Winchester the 18^th of April I was asked to write some comments on the factors influencing TSNA accumulation during storage. The question was, if the observed increase of TSNA-content during storage of baled tobacco is due to microbial activity or other mechanisms.
It is common knowledge that TSNA are produced during curing and are formed in the reaction of alkaloids with nitrite-derived nitrosating species such as NO₂, N₂O₃ and N₂O₄. The source of nitrite during the air-curing process is microbial. The time for microorganisms to produce nitrite is by the end of yellowing when the cells in tobacco leaves loose their integrity and the cellular content is leaking into the intercellular space. Nutrition is then made accessible to microorganisms and the water content (water activity) in the tobacco is high enough for bacteria to grow. Nitrite may accumulate as a result of nitrate reduction by bacteria and TSNA are formed by chemical reactions between nitrite (source of nitrosating species) and alkaloids. When the tobacco dries out during the curing process the water content (water activity) decreases dramatically. At the end of curing the water content (water activity) in tobacco is too low, < 40% (< 0.8) for bacteria to grow and contribute to further production of nitrite.
In various air-curing experiments it has been shown that a substantial nitrite production during air-curing does not necessarily lead to high levels of TSNA in cured tobacco. The reaction between alkaloids and nitrite is not very effective at pH 6, which is the pH of the cured tobacco. However, besides nitrosation of alkaloids the fate of nitrite is not well known. Possible reactions of the excessive nitrite could involve nitrosation of other compounds in tobacco or/and loss as gaseous nitrogen oxides. So if the curing process generated nitrite, the freshly air-cured tobacco is still rich in unstable nitroso-compounds. These compounds will participate in continuous nitrosation of alkaloids during storage and lead to further TSNA accumulation. The reactions involved are chemical reactions such as transnitrosation and gas phase nitrosation. These reactions may occur under a relatively dry conditions where microorganisms are unable to grow and contribute to nitrite formation.
In order to avoid TSNA accumulation during storage of cured tobacco the most important is to have a good curing process with as low nitrite formation as possible. The tobacco in the bales should not be packed too tightly in order to permit residual nitrosating species to be ventilated into the atmosphere instead of reacting with alkaloids. The moisture content in the bales should be as low as possible in order to prevent any chemical reactions and microbial growth.

[precious007]

Hey GN, sorry to hear about G I was curios to know what has microbiology and bacteria have to do with snus?

Microbiology is the study of microscopic organism (I suppose there aren't any in snus, I've read recent studies of how nicotine is actually a great antibacterial agent, bacteria can hardly be in snus) just wondering..

Would you move back to Russia?

I'd love to live there

[Frosted]

I love the way you do things. "Right, I'm off to Russia. Ok, I'm off to Sweden. Ok, I'll just randomly start a snus company LOL.

Hope G is alright now.

[GN Tobacco Sweden AB]

If you have questions about my life and so on just go ahead and ask , I will answer to all

[GN Tobacco Sweden AB]

So me Lennart , G started hard work and suddenly we get know that our microbiologist who warked for Karolinska institute get Blood cancer ;( problem is mikeobilogy is ver important for snus production and we was not understanding in microbiology nothing ... And G gone for long long time to hospital ... It was disaster for us we do not know what to do , cause of moral point of view I could not come to G and say to him you know what sorry that you have this illness learn us how to do calculate bacteria and so on ..... But the Lord gave us another possibility ... Now G is better and we expecting him soon to came back during that time our good friends started to talk about is good things like how ugly our cans are and how bed is it that we produce thru fermentation it is a bull shit guys , ... We did not waited suche unknoligment from people who do not know about snus nothing start to talk about snus like profesionals...

[Frosted]

I've seen some Bulgarian women. I want to live there.

[precious007]

That's a nice story GN!

Basically you were raised in USSR?

Always wanted to visit Russia, there's something nice there.... the people......... something in the their culture..... very similar to Bulgaria (bulgarians are not like romanias as everyone might think, they have a very soviet influence in their country that is far different from our romanian cuture).

Russia is a great place to visit, even though many people don't go there on vacation. I primarily want to visit Moscow

[wadetheblade]

great story and thread gn!

[Frosted]

Yeah. Good stuff Gevorg.

[bill77.017]

Thanks for sharing Gevorg Really looking forward to the rest of your story.

[GN Tobacco Sweden AB]

I'm trying to get to sleep here. Impossible waiting for the next post.

Have a nice sleep Ex . And Whalen , and Bill and Ainkor and others