Article 3YJGQ Calif. safety tests pass moldy marijuana but fail ~20% of products overall

Calif. safety tests pass moldy marijuana but fail ~20% of products overall

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Almost 20 percent of marijuana products in California have failed the state's new safety-testing standards for contamination and labeling accuracy, the Associated Press reports.

While growers argue that the standards are too strict, costly, and inconsistent, some testing experts say the standards don't go far enough to adequately catch fungal contamination that would otherwise be found in routine drug and food testing.

California now has the country's largest legal market of marijuana products. Since testing regulations went into full swing there on July 1, labs have examined nearly 11,000 batches of products ranging from buds to oils and edibles. About 2,000 products failed the tests. Of those, about 65 percent of failures were down to labeling and potency issues. The concentration of the psychoactive cannabinoid tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in any given product must be within 10 percent of what is listed on the label to pass the test, for instance.

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