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Testing Labs:

 

We can meet any challenge facing your lab with our deep knowledge of analytical chemistry protocols, testing and sampling methods, compliance automation, systems integration, and process development.

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If You're a Lab, Here's How TruFolia Can Help:

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One of the objectives of TruFolia is to improve the overall testing industry and trustworthiness of cannabis testing labs.

 

Standardization of laboratory standards enhances the market and helps level the playing field for all “true” quality laboratories.

 

One method to standardize laboratory procedures is to share information. This can be done through conference presentations where results of findings are made available to other labs.  

 

TruFolia, for example gave a presentation on residual solvent analyses at the most recent Emerald Cannabis Conference and will continue to participate in a similar fashion for future conferences.

 

Another example of laboratory collaboration is Round Robin testing. This can expose flaws in individual methodology from lab to lab.

 

Round Robin testing, where one sample is split and sent to several different labs provides a mechanism for comparison.  It tests the entire laboratory process not just the analysis. It exposes possible method shortcomings, and working together, the labs participating can learn how to ensure their testing process is representative of plant or product content.

 

There are no standard methods or procedures used in the industry. These procedures may come from an independent organization such as the AOAC but are likely years in the future. Until then, even with the same instrumentation, there is no guarantee that laboratory results from one lab to the next will match.

 

Round Robin testing is a way to start creating consistent results from lab to lab even when procedures and instrumentation differ. TruFolia has already initiated some round robin testing and is working with other labs to better standardize the testing process.

 

In Colorado, Joseph Evans was also instrumental in the creation and the direction of a laboratory consortium that included all Colorado laboratories whose purpose was to enhance industry quality and improve laboratory regulation.

 

Similar procedures have been discussed for California, and while in its beginnings, TruFolia is on the leading edge of the development of a similar organization.

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