Pesticides

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Todd Statzer, the Vice President of Environmental Sciences at urban-gro, offers some tips for pesticide use in cannabis cultivation.

Best Practices for Pesticide Use in Your Cultivation Facility

Here we discuss the ways in which chemical pesticides interact with plant physiology.

Back to the Root-The Role of Botany and Plant Physiology in Cannabis Testing, Part II: Plant-Pesticide Interactions and Plant Defense 

This application note outlines a QuEChERS extraction approach coupled with either traditional dSPE clean-up versus UCT’s dSPE clean-up in a 96 wellplate format.

Analysis of 47 Pesticides in Cannabis for High Throughput Analysis

is a Senior Scientist at Agilent Technologies and a Visiting Professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

A study using LC-qTOF, GCqTOF, and GC–MS/MS to evaluate the selectivity of a model pesticide commonly found in regulatory target lists.

Up in Smoke: The Naked Truth for LC–MS/MS and GC–MS/MS Technologies for the Analysis of Certain Pesticides in Cannabis Flower

Laboratories are challenged with highly regulated and difficult sample schematics, sample preparation, extraction, and testing procedures that try to ensure accuracy and precision of testing. Accuracy in analytical testing starts at the very beginning with sampling and sample preparation prior to testing.

Right From the Grow: A Look at Sampling and Sample Preparation Methods of Solid Cannabis for Analysis

Too often, cannabis laboratories get different results on the same sample. There are a number of causes and solutions. In this installment, the problem is presented along with its causes.

Inter-Lab Variation in the Cannabis Industry, Part I: Problem and Causes

Cannabis distillate samples spiked with known amounts of pesticides were submitted to five cannabis testing laboratories-here are the results.

Inter-Laboratory Variation in Cannabis Analysis: Pesticides and Potency in Distillates

How two different LC–MS/MS methods with ESI and APCI were used for low-level analysis of 72 pesticides