Fighting Dirty Weed Through OCal Cannabis Certification

September 11, 2024
Tom Hymes
News & Insights, Spotlight, Standards and Certification
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The introduction of regulated medical and adult-use cannabis markets was supposed to guarantee that legal weed was clean weed, but somewhere along the line that message got reinterpreted as legal weed is tested weed, which is supposed to mean the…

Why Cannabis Testing and Labeling Standardization Is Long Overdue

September 3, 2024
Steven Schain
Compliance and Regulations, Lab Testing, Packaging, Standards and Certification
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By Steven Schain Imagine if beer’s testing and labeling requirements differed in every state in which the beverage is sold. While legal in 38 states, each cannabis jurisdiction has its own, and often conflicting, testing and labeling laws. Thus, unlike…

As more states legalize cannabis, uneven safety rules can pose a risk, experts say

July 24, 2023
AggregatedNews
Lab Testing, Standards and Certification
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Amid the growing acceptance and legalization of cannabis use across the country, a concerning reality has emerged: The state-by-state patchwork of safety regulations can leave marijuana consumers wandering through a haze of uncertainty, exposing them to potential risks. Under federal…

Quality Management Systems Part Two: Defining Quality

By Leslie Engelking This is the second in an ongoing series of articles on Quality Management Systems designed to educate the cannabis industry. Before beginning the process of building a Quality Management System for your cannabis business, it is important to…

Lifting Edibles Brands, and the Edibles Industry

How Cannabis Edibles Brands Can Burnish Reputations and Drive Sales Through Audits, Radical Transparency and More By Tyler Williams, Founder and Chief Technical Officer, CSQ Certification The cannabis edibles market continues to boom, as consumers increasingly embrace everything from gummies to…

Is Cannabis Ready For a Weights & Measures Day of Reckoning?

September 22, 2022
Tom Hymes
Best Practices, News & Insights, Standards and Certification
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It turns out that The National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM), the official body responsible for setting weights and measures standards in the United States, has had cannabis in its sights for some time, and even formed a Cannabis…

Legal Weed Has States Improvising Role as Consumers’ Safety Cop

What’s safe in pot? Depends on where you are The spread of legal marijuana across the US is bringing with it a unique challenge: Absent federal guidelines, states are cobbling together hodgepodge rules that leave users without a uniform safety…

From Food to Cannabis, CSQ Founder Tyler Williams is All About Safety and Quality

May 17, 2022
Tom Hymes
From Mainstream to Cannabis, Standards and Certification
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Tyler Williams is the founder and Chief Technical Officer of St. Louis, Missouri-based CSQ, short for Cannabis Safety and Quality. Founded in 2020, the seed-to-sale third-party cannabis certification provider is a subsidiary of ASI Food Safety, which for decades has…

Maturing the Infused Beverage and Edibles Market Means Prioritizing QC Protocols

May 6, 2021
Loni Mowbray
Lab Testing, Science and Technology, Standards and Certification
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Over the past few years, many consumers have come to embrace CBD, THC, and other cannabinoids as functional ingredients in beverages and edibles, yet the food and beverage industry as a whole has been slow to accept this trend. For…

Why GMP is the Future of Quality Control for the Global Industry

April 1, 2021
Michael Sassano
Compliance and Regulations, Standards and Certification
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Good Manufacturing Practices, or GMP, are a systematic way of ensuring that products — from food to supplements to pharmaceuticals — are produced consistently according to established quality control standards. Essentially, GMP ensures a universal minimum standard of quality to…

How to Create Cultivation SOPs in an Industry That Lacks Standardization

There are no internationally accepted standards for licensed cannabis cultivation. This is due in part to decades of global criminalization of cannabis. Organizations that develop standards have little incentive to create international guidelines for criminal activity. Fortunately, with the normalization…

Synthetic vs. Natural Hemp: A Legal and Labeling Minefield

November 11, 2020
Henry Baskerville
Compliance and Regulations, Hemp Policy & Legal, Lab Testing, Policy & Legal, Processing, Standards and Certification
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The DEA’s recent interim final rule--which appears to be in contravention of the letter and spirit of the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (aka the Farm Bill)--continues to cause concern and turmoil in the industry. The proposed rule addresses CBD…

Cannabis Reference Standards

August 3, 2020
Angelo DePalma
Lab Testing, Standards and Certification
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Overcoming Labryinthine US Regulations By Angelo DePalma, PhD All analytical sciences rely on reference standards—standardized, punctiliously prepared and characterized samples—to guarantee the veracity of their results but even more importantly, of their methodology. Cannabis is a complex botanical capable of…

Proposed Cannabis Standard Presents Strategies for Post-Harvest Laboratory Analyses

PRESS RELEASE W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., July 28, 2020 – A proposed ASTM International standard will establish sound sampling strategies for post-harvest flowers, leaves, and other cannabis or hemp biomass. ASTM’s cannabis committee (D37) is developing the proposed standard. The proposed…

Accreditation: Adding Value to Supply Chains

March 5, 2020
Lezli Engelking
Compliance and Regulations, Standards and Certification
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In the first installment, we established the differences between first, second, and third party certification. For this article, we will delve deeper into third party certification by exploring the difference between certification and accreditation. The terms certification and accreditation are often…

Fighting Dirty Weed Through OCal Cannabis Certification

Why Cannabis Testing and Labeling Standardization Is Long Overdue

As more states legalize cannabis, uneven safety rules can pose a risk, experts say

Quality Management Systems Part Two: Defining Quality

Lifting Edibles Brands, and the Edibles Industry

Is Cannabis Ready For a Weights & Measures Day of Reckoning?

Legal Weed Has States Improvising Role as Consumers’ Safety Cop

From Food to Cannabis, CSQ Founder Tyler Williams is All About Safety and Quality

Maturing the Infused Beverage and Edibles Market Means Prioritizing QC Protocols

Why GMP is the Future of Quality Control for the Global Industry

How to Create Cultivation SOPs in an Industry That Lacks Standardization

Synthetic vs. Natural Hemp: A Legal and Labeling Minefield

Cannabis Reference Standards

Proposed Cannabis Standard Presents Strategies for Post-Harvest Laboratory Analyses

Accreditation: Adding Value to Supply Chains

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