Facility Consulting Services for Contaminants
Microbial Facility Consulting Services
Airborne Microbials
The airborne microbial load in your facility has an enormous impact on the cleanliness of your final product. Temperature, airflow, humidity, air purification efforts, and product handling all impact airborne microbial load as well as other factors. Our team can provide services that measure the ambient microbial load in your facility’s air through a variety of techniques.
Surface Testing
Yeast and mold can be found almost anywhere in your grow facility. Certain areas, especially moist areas or exposed wood have the potential to act as a persistent source of contamination. Surface testing helps identify these problem areas. Clone rooms, vegetative rooms, flowering rooms, trimming areas and curing rooms are recommended for this study.
Environmental Monitoring
Track your facilities’ environmental conditions over time to better mitigate microbial failures. Take advantage of our client portal’s bulk download functionality to easily retrieve your data in a .CSV file.
Strain Specific Analysis
Certain strains of cannabis are known to have more problems with microbial growth than others. By analyzing past data and trend tracking each strain through our client portal, we can identify these potential problem strains.
Pesticide Facility Consulting Services
Protect Your Brand
Pesticides may be present in your facility due to environmental or systemic contamination. Following the proper decontamination procedures is key to removing any lingering substances. We will work with your team to pinpoint sources of contamination and eliminate further issues, ensuring that all ingredients and additives moving forward are free of pesticides.
Why Test Your Facility?
At one time, there was little regulation regarding pesticide use in cannabis in the state of Colorado. Many facilities where pesticides were once being applied still contain residual environmental contamination. If you are investing in a new property or would like to better understand what is currently on-site in your facility, on-site swabbing can provide a better picture of your environmental conditions.Â
Agricultural Testing Services for Input Materials
Nordic Analytical Laboratories can perform agricultural tests for elemental impurities (heavy metals), pesticides and microbial contaminants. Specifically, elemental impurities are a category of contaminants that can have a range of origination points, particularly in the cultivation of process of cannabis plants and products. Various sources can contain heavy metals, providing and array of opportunities for a harvest or production batch to be contaminated. Below are some commonly tested inputs for contaminants:
Soil & Other Growing Media
Water Sources
Fertilizers & Nutrients
Pesticides
Pre-Harvest Testing
Contaminant Testing for Cannabis & Hemp Harvest Batches
Are you concerned about contaminants in your final harvested product? Nordic Analytical Labs recommends performing a “manicure harvest” on a small but representative portion of a plant, which can be submitted prior to the submission of the entire finished harvest batch as a quality check to ensure the plants have not been contaminated during the pre-harvest process.
Cannabinoid Testing for Hemp Harvest Batches
With regulations for the amount of total THC present in hemp biomass, it is crucial to ensure your crop will not be over the allowable limit and can compliantly be processed into industrial hemp products. By testing your crop at different times during the growing cycle, you can rest assured that you will have compliant hemp biomass and reduce the potential of losing your harvest.
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