standards
Here Is What to Expect at the Upcoming Cannabis Quality Conference
This year’s Cannabis Quality Conference is being held alongside the long-running Food Safety Consortium, bringing cannabis quality professionals into the same room as food safety experts and creating an overlap between the two industries as they work through many of the same quality, testing, traceability, and safety challenges. That overlap is particularly relevant as cannabis […]
How CPG Standardization Can Help Cannabis Edibles Scale
Imagine buying a standard over-the-counter pain reliever in Miami, and then buying the same brand in Denver, only to find the second bottle is twice as potent because of the altitude where it was manufactured. In any mainstream industry, this could trigger an immediate federal recall. In the cannabis industry, it is a daily operational […]
Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: A Tour of ASTM Standards for Cannabis – Part 1
In the realm of consumer safety, minimum standards form a critical safety net that allows businesses and regulators alike with necessary guidelines. From our food and medicines, railroad tracks to bicycle helmets, crayons to cribs, standards are everywhere. Knowing where the lanes are and how to move inside of them provides the structure needed to […]