[' ', 'waa', '_', 'WINSTON', 'Product', 'Task', 'Force', 'Page', '3', 'November', '21,', '1984', 'enable', 'production', 'to', 'continue.', 'The', 'Task', 'Force', 'commended', 'QA', 'for', 'its', 'actions', 'in', 'helping', 'to', 'detect,', 'avoid,', 'and', 'solve', 'the', 'problem.', 'Ecusta', 'will', 'implement', 'proc-', 'ess', 'control,', 'working', 'with', 'RURT,', 'to', 'avoid', 'problems', 'in', 'the', 'future.', 'FENM', 'Blend', 'Screening', 'Study', 'Watt', 'briefly', 'reviewed', 'preliminary', 'results', 'on', 'the', 'FENM', 'Blend', 'Screening', 'Study,', 'based', 'on', 'the', 'WINSTON', '100', 'configuration.', 'The', 'purpose', 'of', 'this', 'study', 'is', 'to', 'determine', 'the', 'impact', 'of', 'each', 'blend', 'component', 'on', 'acceptance', 'and', 'key', 'consumer', 'perceptions', 'and', 'to', 'identify', 'combinations', 'of', 'components', 'which', 'optimize', 'consumer', '-acceptance/perceptions.', 'The', 'key', 'components', 'of', 'burley,', 'Turkish,', 'G-7A,', 'G-13,', 'and', 'flue', 'cured', 'were', 'varied', 'over', 'a', 'wide', 'range.', 'Initial', 'results', 'show', 'that', 'G-7A/G-13', 'variations', 'have', 'the', 'most', 'impact', 'on', 'physical', 'and', 'analytical', 'charac-', 'teristics,', 'confirming', 'the', 'importance', 'of', 'R&D', 'programs', 'addressing', 'these', 'two', 'components.', 'Full', 'results,', 'requiring', 'sophisticated', 'data', 'analysis,', 'will', 'be', 'discussed', 'at', 'the', 'December', 'Task', 'Force', 'meeting.', 'Next', 'Steps', 'Fourteen', 'prototypes', 'on', 'the', 'key', 'WINSTON', 'styles', 'are', 'either', 'in', 'the', 'field', 'or', 'wil]', 'be', 'fielded', 'prior', 'to', 'year-end', 'in', 'improvement', 'Programs.', 'Watt', 'will', 'review', 'results', 'of', 'five', 'prototype', 'tests', 'in', 'the', 'December', 'meeting,', 'including', 'results', 'on', 'each', 'of', 'the', 'four', 'major', 'styles.', 'FFLT', 'TAR', 'LIMITS', 'STUDY', 'Cal', 'Neumann', 'reviewed', 'results', 'of', 'the', 'FFLT', 'Tar', 'Limits', 'Study,', 'a', 'joint', 'R&D/MDD', 'consumer', 'study.', 'The', 'study', 'is', 'part', 'of', 'a', 'larger', 'program,', 'thie', 'goal', 'of', 'which', 'is', 'to', 'set', 'specifications', 'and', 'ranges', 'on', 'key', 'product', 'variables', 'based', 'on', 'consumer', 'input.', 'The', 'specific', 'objective', 'of', 'the', 'above', 'study', 'is', 'to', 'determine', 'what', 'changes', 'in', 'tar', 'result', 'in', 'significant', 'differences', 'in', 'consumer', 'acceptance/perceptions', 'for', 'FFLT', 'products', 'and', 'to', 'base', 'recommendations', 'for', 'product', 'tar', 'limits', 'on', 'these', 'results.', 'In', 'addition', 'to', 'the', 'above', 'objective,', 'results', 'from', 'the', 'study', 'will', 'also', 'provide', 'information', 'relative', 'to', 'optimal', 'tar', 'delivery', 'levels', 'and', 'an', 'understand-', 'ing', 'of', 'the', 'effect', 'of', 'different', 'methods', 'for', 'achieving', 'tar', 'differences.', 'The', 'study', 'was', 'based', 'on', 'the', 'CAMEL', 'Lights', '85', 'configuration', 'and', 'included', 'ten', 'products', 'with', 'independently', 'varying', 'filter', 'draft', 'and', 'air', 'dilution.', 'Tar', 'varied', 'from', '6', 'to', '14', 'mg.', 'fn', 'the', 'resulting', 'products,', 'and', 'the', 'test', 'was', 'very', 'well', 'con-', 'trolled', 'in', 'terms', 'of', 'hitting', 'design', 'specifications.', 'Testing', 'was', 'done', 'among', 'FFLT', 'NM', '85', 'category', 'smokers,', 'breaking', 'out', 'WINSTON', 'Lights', 'franchise,', 'CAMEL', 'Lights', 'franchise,', 'and', '18-34', 'male', 'competitive', 'smokers', 'for', 'independent', 'study.', 'Across', 'ali', 'smoker', 'groups,', 'results', 'showed', 'that', 'air', 'dilution', 'had', 'the', 'primary', 'impact', 'on', 'tar', 'as', 'well', 'as', 'on', 'consumer', 'acceptance/perceptions.', 'Limits', 'af', 'per-', 'ceptible', 'changes', 'by', 'consumers', 'were', 'a', 'function', 'of', 'tar', 'level,', 'with', 'a', 'perceptible', 'Sh€h', '£9na0s', 'c™']