Dr. Anthony Macherone Calls for More Comprehensive Pesticide Testing for Safer Consumer Cannabis Products

This article will briefly introduce GC splitless inlet anatomy and show a simple example for how optimizing injection type and volume, initial GC oven temperature, and extract dilution can improve GC peak shape.

Economic incentives are driving dishonest laboratory test results, and there’s data to prove it.

The Commission provided information on testing updates intended to increase product safety and transparency.

Listen to a Noid Factoid from Julie Kowalski, Principal Consultant with JA Kowalski Science Support.

Robert Thomas investigates the costs that go into heavy metal testing through an informative exercise that debunks claims that a larger panel would significantly increase costs.

With the recent 2024 presidential election behind us, the future of cannabis still has many unknowns moving forward and questions still to be discussed. In this roundtable discussion with four knowledgeable industry leaders, we explore the nuanced political landscape of cannabis legalization and rescheduling in the context of the election, including state and federal policies and possible paths forward for testing standardization. Join us in the second part of a compilation of responses from Kim Anzarut, CQA, CP-FS, CEO of Allay Consulting; Susan Audino, PhD, founder of S.A. Audino & Associates, LLC; Zacariah Hildenbrand, PhD, research Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso; and David Vaillencourt, CEO of The GMP Collective.