Product Safety & Testing

Oregon State researchers propose a standardized cannabis aroma lexicon, offering clearer pathways for quality assessment beyond THC and terpenes.

Certificates of analysis (COAs) are widely treated as the gold standard of cannabis ingredient quality, but they don’t always tell the full story. Many reveal only what the lab was asked to test for, and labs have powerful incentives to report favorable results. The result is a quiet but growing crisis of inconsistency, reformulations, and lost consumer trust.

GAITHERSBURG, Md. – A federal standards-setting agency is reselling commercially purchased ground hemp at astronomical prices in what the agency characterizes as an effort...

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. — California regulators have escalated cannabis product recalls and issued more health warnings to consumers. Within the past month, the Department...

Consumers, retailers, and others are growing more concerned about discrepancies between cannabis product labels and the results of subsequent independent tests performed on products...

W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – In yet another sign of growing mainstream acceptance of the cannabis industry, globally recognized voluntary standards body ASTM International’s cannabis...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University’s Global Hemp Innovation Center have put together a team to study the effect of wildfire smoke...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A batch of CBD oil has been voluntarily recalled by its manufacturer after testing positive for higher than acceptable levels of...

PORTLAND, Maine – CBD pet wellness company ElleVet Sciences announced results from a study of twenty-nine hemp pet products. The study was conducted in partnership...

Plants that yield beneficial compounds and raw materials—useful crops like corn or tobacco—go from being greenery to commodities to products for consumer markets. But...