How Cannabis Is Tested (wrong transcription)
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think do you know your medicine meet maps
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as laboratories bring the human educational series
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the signs cannabis
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today's doctor bottles
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just laboratories comments marijuana test
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doctor bonnie Goldstein arrived at SC laboratories
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and was given the whole tour the facilities as well as insight on the
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process
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out medical marijuana is tested
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the samples first develop a chain of custody from the dispensary
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up until delivery of results this assures that no samples are compromised
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or tampered with
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trust integrity and reproducibility
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are the most important aspects to the testing facility if a facility is
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lacking
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and these aspects it would make any test results
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produces less credible what's the samples are brought to the lapd
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they are insurgents you the laboratory inventory management system
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ornaments to potentially tracked throughout the testing process
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a visual inspection using a high magnification dissecting microscope is
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conducted and recorded
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in surveillance system the samples then gets stored in a temperature and
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humidity control refrigerator
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under lock and key each sample is stored in the file labeled with the sample ID
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correlating to its profile in the lib system testing process begins with Wayne
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the samples the correct amount needed for the potency test
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sample is frozen dry ice and then try a technically Mills
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a ground-up to a fine powder to allow the Canaanites to completely dissolve
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the solutions needed to run through the lab sensitive instrumentation
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after the samples ground-up precisely measured volume of solution is added to
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the sample
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and then run through reports X this renders the sample
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no longer fit for consumption vortex at
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sample to help evenly distribute the Canaanites incidents
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huge the sample is then placed in a sonic back
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season for the separate the Canaanites from the plant matter
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the sonic back posts on ways to the sample
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and is able to transfer the remaining 10 Avenue it's from the plant matter
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inside the solution the same technologies
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Stickley roster of drawing for to clean teeth in a dentist's office
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the sample was then clinton's centrifuge which spins the mixture at high speeds
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this pushes all the solid plan particles to the bottom of the pile
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allowing the lab technicians to extract a nap
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solution from the top SC laboratories uses methods established by the UN no DC
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as well as the Dutch Pharmacopoeia success for parts the piece to pesticide
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and microbiological tests on standards established by
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the yet FDA United States Pharmacopoeia
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and other governing bodies rather than develop so-called proprietary methods
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St laboratories follows these national and international guidelines to allow
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their test results the standups appears truant
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as well as provide protection for their clients the safety of their medicine is
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ever challenged the solution is diluted once more
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and placed in on a sample vial to be loaded
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the high-performance liquid chromatographic for HPLC
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first essential instrument in the potency testing process
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there are two techniques which are capable of measuring points
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in tennis gas chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography
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they are used to determine how much of each component is present in a sample
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where these two instruments differ is that a gas chromatograph applies heat in
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the testing process
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since cannabis is comprised of many components that are heat-sensitive
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the gas chromatograph is unable to measure many the primary contaminants
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found in cannabis
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for example chce occurs implants in several different forms
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including small amounts adults a 98 C and large amounts of THC a
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when THC is he'd it converts mostly until tonight CHC
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gas chromatograph can only measure the Chi Chi /a that is converted into delta
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nine
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after the healing process and cannot distinguish it from the deaths nine
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hours already there
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this is similar to try to measure the weekend with a piece of wood
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by the way ashes that are left over in your fireplace
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s laboratories affirms thats striving to high-performance liquid chromatography
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is the only method guarantee trailer and more accurate results
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the high-performance liquid chromatographic
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runs the Canaanites should to recall that includes
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nonpolar stationary phase as the different components in the mixture
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passed through the column
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they stick to the particles column similar to how statically typed balloon
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whilst the clothing different compounds ticked
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for a longer time depending on the polarity this separates
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components the next allow him to be measured by you
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the photodiode array for pesticide testing
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the samples additionally one through a mass spectrometer which is able to
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detect particles
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even greater detail there was a similar principle many pesticides
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fungicides and plant growth regulators are she sensitive compounds as well
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which makes liquid chromatography with mass spectrometer techniques
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superiors in this instance as well another instrument
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SC laboratories disposal is a real time PCR
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which is able to quantify exactly how much officer in molecule
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is present in a sample this instrument to be used to detect
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single or bacterial components of a sample if calibrated correctly
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it can even determine the limit specific strains
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many other methods to days or even weeks to have conclusive results
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father real-time PCR is able to produce test results in as little as 30 minutes
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SC laps the first company to bring this new and exciting technology to the
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cannabis industry
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the Yelchin celeste is another advanced instrument that is able to give up very
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comprehensive
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reading of what kinda mold or bacteria is present in the sample
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the solution is placed in the growth medium which allows the bacteria to
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incubate
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it gives off a CEO to change the pH level of the solution
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us changing the color the growth medium the Solaris has optical detectors second
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measure the exact color change
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that's producing accurate measurement of bacteria East
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and mold levels all of these machines for their test results to the laboratory
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inventory management system and compile into a centralized security database
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of test results on the 10 haven't profile
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in this live report people see total breakdown of tht
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CBD and Symbian concepts a lot can be determined from a lab report
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if there's a lot more THC tht
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might indicate the sample was not given enough time the curing process for the
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team's
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Stanford staged on the other end of the spectrum
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there's a lot of CBN suppose teams get my
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in the the sample has been issued for far too long
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just needed to speak this yet to break down dipped
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see it is not actually produced by the plant its life cycle
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India all this can happen his contract
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each other since just this possible slices 30 THC
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pharmaceuticals had negative affect some to expand
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because to use only phenomenon said
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meets it is believed that the absence of all the other two methods
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are responsible for the negative side this
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each patient may have a different preference for different dynamic
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migrations
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which is why tonight profiles are so important even know what
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should make it the same stream over and over again its can happily profile me
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very
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batch to batch resulting in a different effect each time in
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agent information it is vital that patients no one is
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ms whether it be policy levels for pesticide levels
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permission given in test results allow the patient to have more control
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and knowledge over the experience and interaction with Ms
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yes laboratories would like to ask every nation out there
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you know your medicine Inc