Actlari Check TAst = ==irm Directors I and T= Mestiros There won a mxW:er of actioris raised at these two mestings which were to be ccm4A-rvd at tha Meeting of the Research Directors in October 1M, for inclusion, if appirapriets, in the ftrdismental research programme. The foLloving chealkList show the decimicm of that nesting. 1. Proiects almad the 0*m2mm= =is for taste ma for oolm 1m;dgM yhich ccrisider tmm=lbm It wan cmicUxled that this priority is waU cowered in the wcmx area. Sigmificant parts of the )50teriAla SCien0a Special Armlytical work areas also this subject. AU relevant i@fiormtion in MIX7 and BW on the effects of V-0mical te*yt properties an smoking qiaLity, together with views on -.mt rurtber information in needed, wiLl be omit to TW. 2. QXM=2== rwearch to reduce bi=smm ard imItatim With the Proviso that bitterness" o&=uldl be sam in the totaL oct*fiacrt of "aftertaste" and that "harahness" and "irritationO axe closely linked, thim priority is cowered in the Chemomensory wark area. 3. Associated work our This is now incLuded in the Chemosensory work programme. 4. Develocromit of imaroved ]a MiLs is not sam an a project am for Auximnerital ramearch. Bw wiU define t2m smVe of and this project, after discussion with other CRC 5. Develm cJgW3dt= This* priority is cowered in the inranitive, Products arm. 6. ftiodearadable rll= A nw project has been inaLuded in the fundmm*4a research I a to pumm this priority. The work wIlL be dma in consul with Mtr. 7. Aspects of Mis priority an being puzzusd in both FM and W. The two approachm oftuld be omqxlenentary With mo dupLication of effort. 8. 7b Irmesticate tobacico leaf -2auity at Variclum 4111mum A comprehensive redw of existing Informatian, much of wItich is based an wWw1ments ocrActed In ftuLL, w:LU be neds by April 1991 by Sotlm Qruz. AUVSC 16th November, L990 rQ C=) r"i --4 rlJ C:) -DAb C.> B.A.T INDUSTRIES P.L.C. - MINNESOTA DEPOSITORY COPY - PRODUCED PURSUANT To I VILD. OF CONSENT JUDGMENT DATED 518190 IN STATE OF MINNESOTA, ET AL. V. PHILLP MORRIS, ET AL., CASE No. Cl-94-8565