sample="quota" bates="1003390563" isource="pm" decade="1980" class="ni" date="19800112" PHASIN RS34662VVVV RCA DEC 01 0415+ PM RD RCH ETOEU FTR CH DR. ROBERT B. SELIGMANN 1.12.1980 DEAR BOB, AS A POSSIBLE INPUT TO THE DISCUSSION ON TUESDAY - SHOULD THE SUBJECT COME UP - I WOULD LIKE TO RECALL PART OF OUR LONG-TERM RESEARCH CONCEPT WHICH YOU AND DR. HAEUSERMANN HAVE APPROVED (IN YOUR MEETINGS ON COORDINATION WITH THE RICHMOND AND NEUCHATEL ACTIVITIES). DENITRATION, BE IT ON LAMINA, SHEET OR STEM, IS PART OF A PRODUCT RESEARCH CONCEPT OF DEFENSIVE NATURE GEARED PRIMARILY TO POSSIBLE NEEDS OF THE REGION PMEMA. THE WHOLE CONCEPT CONCERNS THE REMOVAL OF SMOKE CONSTITUENTS FROM MAINSTREAM AND SIDESTREAM THAT MIGHT GIVE RISE TO ACUTE EMBARRASSMENT AND LOSS OF MARKET SHARE IN SOME MARKETS OF THE REGION. MOST OF THE COMPOUNDS IN QUESTION HAPPEN TO BE NITROGEN DERIVATIVES WHICH ARE EITHER NITRATE OR PROTEIN DERIVED. THEREFORE THE LOGIC EXTENSION OF DENITRATION IS DEPROTEINATION. THE METHOD WHICH WE HAVE DEVELOPED IN PROJECT PROTAGORAS FOR WHICH WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF OBTAINING PATENT COVERAGE IS IN PRACTICAL TERMS A SIMPLE EXTENSION OF THE N NO PRINCIPLE, USING THE SAME EQUIPMENT. THE MAIN MODIFICATION BEING A COMBINED DIGESTION / EXTRACTION STEP INSTEAD OF THE SIMPLE EXTRACTION IN NINO. INTEGRATED INTO THE NEW PROCESS IS A NINOMASS DERIVED RE ADDITION STEP OF REACTION FLAVOURS. THIS IS IN ORDER TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS OF THOSE AMINO ACIDS WHICH ARE FLAVOUR PRECURSOR. I AM WRITING THIS TO YOU IN ORDER TO AVOID THAT NINO IS BEING LOOKED AT IN ISOLATION. DR. HAEUSERMANN WILL CERTAINLY BE WILLING TO GIVE YOU FURTHER DETAILS IF SO REQUIRED. I KEPT THE TELEX DELIBERATELY LESS EXPLICIT. YOUR QUERY SURGEAON GENERAL-INDEPENDENT SCIENTIFIC COMMITTE. THERE HAD BEEN Y VISIT BY DR. STEINFELD AND SOME OTHER AMERICANS TO DISCUSS DIFFERENCES OF OPINION WITH THE INDEPENDENT SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. US ATTITUDE IS ALLEGEDLY: THERE ARE NO LESS HAZARDOUS CIGARETTES, UK (ISC) ATTITUDE: LESS HAZARDOUS PRODUCTS ARE INDEED POSSIBLE. BY THE WAY: RUSSEL AND WALD ARE GOING TO HELP DRAFT THE FORTHCOMING US REPORT. SHOULD BE READY FOR JUNE AND IS SUPPOSED TO CONCENTRATE ON COMPENSATION. PLEASE GIVE A COPY TO DR. HAEUSERMANN AND MR. RESNIK ON MY BEHALF.