If I were business, producing distinctive blends, I doubt that I'd post my recipes. In that I'm just a BoB, I have no qualms about posting the components of a blend, so others may assemble them. I think we live in a copycat world and ultimately someone will put together a "Match" of anything I blend, either with measured intent or accident.I've even wondered about posting good DIY recipes here with the thought that somebody like Ken Byron will just take the idea and have a successful commercial product.
I have no doubt that with some science and tasting the key blenders at the significant tobacco companies could reproduce just about any blend. I don't think anyone of them wants to be known as the replicator of another's blend. Obviously, for Sutliff, someone is creating the Match blends, but I doubt that anyone will identify him/her self as a copyist.Well if anyone could successfully reproduce BSOSM or even Frog Morton I would grab it in a heart beat.
I'd be very surprised if anyone at the FDA ever attempts to verify any ingredients, proportions, casings, flavorants, curing methodology, etc. I know the FDA wouldn't take kindly to a manufacturer sending the agency a blend totally based on semi-fictional ingredients: Oriental burley, organic sheep methane gas fired over recumbent derived equine dookie or, maybe one of the inspectors would say, "Sounds and smells good to me."The FDA's tobacco regulations require the manufacturer to identify to the FDA a pipe blend's ingredients. From the FDA's guidance doc on this requirement (https://www.fda.gov/media/101162/download), the manufacturer must, for example, identify the leaf type (e.g., burley, bright,oriental), variety, cure method (e.g., flue, fire, sun, steam, air) and heat source (e.g., propane, wood) and a description of any recombinant DNA technology used to engineer the tobacco. The manufacture must also ID added chemical and complex compounds like flavoring. I don't know if these ingredient lists are available to the public. I suspect not.
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