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California Prepares to Roll Out Additional Cannabis Testing Regulations July 1.

EVIO Labs mentioned:

http://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/article/california-additional-testing-regulations-july-1/

To keep a watchful eye on their products, cultivators should ensure that their licensed distributors test their products, according to Lori Glauser, co-founder of EVIO Labs, which operates 11 labs across the U.S. and Canada. The company recently opened EVIO Labs Berkeley and acquired a lab in Humboldt County.

“It’s the distributors that are going to be engaging with the labs,” Glauser said. “And then once a distributor engages with a lab to perform testing—one or more labs—then the lab will come out to the distributor’s site and sample from the batches of product at the distributor’s site.”

The lab will select samples in the amount required by state law, which might be more than what growers have been used to providing in the past, Glauser added. Labs must ensure that they have a statistically significant amount to get a representative sample of the entire batch. A batch is a uniform grouping of product—with flower, for example, it would be a uniform batch of one strain that was grown and harvested at approximately the same time, usually a whole room. Labs will test up to 50 pounds of a batch, and if less than 50 pounds was grown at a time, they sample the same equivalency of whatever amount was grown.

The frequency of testing will depend on how frequently the grower is producing, Glauser added. Turnaround time for testing is currently between five to 10 business days, depending on the suite of tests needed. “It is possible that when things get busy with the labs, which may happen after July 1, that turnaround time might get a little bit longer,” Glauser said.