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|Webcasts|March 3, 2022
Challenges with Microbial Contaminant Testing for Cannabis Laboratories
Thursday March 3, 2022 11 am EST Navigating the complex world of microbial contaminant testing in the cannabis industry.
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Event Overview:
As the legal cannabis industry continues to grow, issues remain for laboratories to accurately perform microbial contaminant testing. Laboratories must learn to navigate unclear regulatory guidance, limitations in current technologies, and the unavailability of qualified microbiologists to perform the work. Becoming ISO 17025:2017 compliant is only the first step, but to be truly successful, laboratories will need to embrace the finer details of microbiology analysis. Participants in this webinar will gain insight into:
- Interpreting microbial contaminant regulations
- Going beyond ISO 17025:2017 accreditation for microbial contaminant testing
- Benefits and limitations of current technologies
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understanding method validation and compliance testing requirements of state regulations
- Limitations of ISO accreditation for microbial compliance testing and how to resolve remaining issues.
- How to benefit from new technologies and when culture based methods may be more appropriate
Who Should Attend:
- Cannabis laboratories: Quality Directors, Laboratory Directors, Technicians
- Regulators
- Industry
Speakers
Patrick Bird
Principal Consultant
PMB BioTek Consulting, LLC
Patrick Bird is the principal consultant at PMB BioTek Consulting and a technical consultant for AOAC INTERNATIONAL. Pat works with method developers, laboratories and industry to identify solutions to emerging microbiological issues, optimize method workflows and design validation studies. Pat works with PJLA as an assessor and is the author of the Laboratory Safety and Compliance Testing for Microorganism Contamination Chapter in the Cannabis Laboratory Fundamentals textbook. Pat holds a BS in Microbiology from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and a MS in Food Safety from Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI.
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