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02/23/18 9:51 PM

#36434 RE: User-65225 #36433

“Buyer Beware” as California Starts Recreational Marijuana Sales without Pesticide Residue Testing
(Beyond Pesticides, December 20, 2017)


https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2017/12/buyer-beware-california-starts-recreational-marijuana-sales-without-pesticide-testing/

The California Bureau of Cannabis Control’s (CBCC) emergency rules implementing its legal cannabis market phases in quality testing for cannabis throughout 2018. However, when shops open on January 1st, retailers will be allowed to sell cannabis products without laboratory testing for pesticides or other contaminants, though they will have to be labeled as such. Any cannabis products harvested after January 1, 2018 will be tested for “contaminants with a high public health risk.” By July 1, 2018, “moderate relative health risk” contaminants will be tested, and by the end of the year the state will include “minor relative health risk” testing, according to a fact sheet released by the CBCC. A list of what pesticides are considered under each of those categories is available on page 92 of CBCC’s emergency regulations.