According to the company, the affected employees represent about 20 percent of the company's total workforce, which employs approximately 47,000 people worldwide
While the levels were too low to allow differential S / R quantitation by chiral GC, especially in the presence of the relatively massive levels of S -nicotine, it is considered likely that the S enantiomer was at least dominant because of original formation by reaction of 6-methyl nicotinic acid in the nicotine formation pathway, or subsequent methylation of S -nicotine
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The process produces a sweeter, mellower, more rounded flavor than the raw leaf