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Application of a Simple Genetic Assay to Discriminate Hemp from Drug-Type CannabisA report on the findings from the initial field evaluation of a molecular DNA-based assay to distinguish the categories of fiber hemp, resin hemp, and THC cannabis based on genetics.
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Environmental Screening of a Cannabis Production and Processing Facility: A Comparison of an Environmental DNA Microarray and Traditional Microbiological Plating MethodsA case study that demonstrates the utility and necessity of environmental screening in a cannabis production and processing facility.
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Environmental Screening of a Cannabis Production and Processing Facility: A Comparison of an Environmental DNA Microarray and Traditional Microbiological Plating MethodsA case study that demonstrates the utility and necessity of environmental screening in a cannabis production and processing facility.
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Beyond THC and CBD: Opportunities for Creating Pharmaceutical TargetsCommentary on how medicinal cannabis can evolve in a similar manner as the pharmaceutical industry did.
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How the Cannabis Industry Can Benefit from Leveraging Pharmaceutical ResourcesCurrently in the cannabis industry, the standards and benchmarks for drug delivery, analytics and testing, consumer reporting, and packaging are basic in nature with substantial room for more sophistication and technology. Here’s how it can be improved.
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The Rising Threat to the US Cannabis Industry: How THC Inflation and Laboratory Shopping are Undermining TrustA tutorial article that delineates the rising threats of “lab shopping” and THC inflation to the US cannabis industry and proposes solutions to overcome them.
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Vapes: What Are You Actually Inhaling?A review of a study on vapes found four major factors related to the production of vape cartridges that warrant additional attention: cutting agents, temperature, flavoring, and hardware and heavy metals.
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Vapes: What Are You Actually Inhaling?A review of a study on vapes found four major factors related to the production of vape cartridges that warrant additional attention: cutting agents, temperature, flavoring, and hardware and heavy metals.
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Vapes: What Are You Actually Inhaling?A review of a study on vapes found four major factors related to the production of vape cartridges that warrant additional attention: cutting agents, temperature, flavoring, and hardware and heavy metals.
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Advances in XRF and ICP-OES Analysis for Plant Tissue and Soil Analysis Including CannabisAgronomic analyses for materials such as soils, plant tissues, and Cannabis can present considerable challenges, even for today’s spectrometers. Many analyzers currently on the market may fall short of satisfactory performance.Learn how new advances in ICP-OES technology can greatly benefit your analysis of soils, plants and Cannabis samples and how the introduction of ED-XRF analysis can simplify sample preparation and increase productivity for nutrient and heavy metal analysis.
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Advances in XRF and ICP-OES Analysis for Plant Tissue and Soil Analysis Including CannabisAgronomic analyses for materials such as soils, plant tissues, and Cannabis can present considerable challenges, even for today’s spectrometers. Many analyzers currently on the market may fall short of satisfactory performance.Learn how new advances in ICP-OES technology can greatly benefit your analysis of soils, plants and Cannabis samples and how the introduction of ED-XRF analysis can simplify sample preparation and increase productivity for nutrient and heavy metal analysis.
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LC-UV Method for 16 Cannabinoids in Hemp and CannabisUCT’s Selectra® C18 Column provides for a simple and robust method for the detection and quantitation of 16 cannabinoids in hemp and cannabis samples.
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Medical Cannabis Telehealth Bill Vetoed by Hawaii Governor Josh GreenHawaii Governor Josh Green vetoes bill that would have allowed medical cannabis patients to be certified via telehealth.
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Editors’ Series Exploring Chemical Constituents in Cannabis Using Nontargeted GC and GCxGC with TOFMSWe know cannabis is complex, so where do we start. Nontargeted screening provides a wealth of information about the chemical constituents that are found in cannabis samples. This presentation demonstrates technology that takes us one step closer to answering “what’s all in there?”.
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JEOL E-Beam System Arrives at Neighborhood 91JEOL announces the arrival of the JAM-5200EBM Electron Beam-Powder Bed Fusion system to Cumberland Additive located at Neighborhood 91, the advanced manufacturing production campus at Pittsburgh International Airport.
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Back to the Root The Role of Botany and Plant Physiology in Cannabis Testing, Part IV: The Botany of Cannabinoids or Why Do Plants Produce Cannabinoids and What’s in it for Them?This article explores what we do and don’t know about the origins of Cannabis ssp. from a botanical perspective and outlines some of the hypotheses proposed to explain the “why” of cannabinoid production in plants and the approaches that researchers are taking to try and answer this elusive question.
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Engineering Considerations for the cGMP Manufacture of Hemp and Hemp ProductsThis column discusses some of the most important considerations involved in the GMP certification process.
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Scaling Up Facilities for Hemp and Cannabis Production: An Engineering PrimerThis tutorial article outlines a holistic approach to scaling up.
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Cannabis Laboratory Testing Market in North AmericaOur first market profile of 2020 reviews the cannabis laboratory testing market in the U.S. and Canada.
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Degree of Variance in THC Levels in Samples Taken from Single Lots of Medical CannabisIn the work presented here, the author shares research from collecting reports from the New Jersey State laboratory (the Department of Health’s Environmental and Chemical Laboratory Services), which has conducted testing for the state’s medicinal program. He documented an average variance of 20% in potency levels from different samples of the same test lot.
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Cannabis Cultivation is More Math than Science: The Role of Data in A Successful Grow OperationA closer look at how cannabis cultivation management platforms can track data for you and make recommendations based on intelligence and logic discerned from the numbers.
