redi jedi
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It would be a few hundred for the cannabanoids, but you also need to test for various microbes, aflatoxins, and heavy metals. Given that all tests need to be conducted in triplicate (or more), $2000 would be reasonable and I wouldn't expect to see much lower. That being said $2000 per batch isn't that big an onus given the value of the crop, it just means that you need each crop to be large enough to support it. For what it's worth, most of these tests are required to sell any herbal product in Canada so these regulations are not putting any unusual requirements on this crop in particular.
Would you need to test for heavy metals for every harvested crop? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but those metals would be coming from either the water used or the fertilizer. So if the water source and fertilizer used never changes, is that test really necessary?