Independent Testing & Adulterants D. Duncan, PhD 1 & P . Truj illo 2 1 Laboratory Director, CannaS afe Tigard, OR 2 Technical Director, ChemHistory Milwaukie, OR
Rules & Testing Terpene Analysis Outline Commercial Terpene S olutions Adulterants in Inhalable Products
From Rules to Data: A laboratory prospective Regulations Method Development Compound Testing Instrumentation Concentration Quality S ystem Procedure Frequency Measurement Validation Reporting Reporting ROI Amount
How to Quantify Targeted Testing Untargeted Testing Low to moderate cost Moderate to high cost Chemically isolate target Chemically isolate class of compounds from sample compounds from sample Easy to automate Difficult to automate Multiple detectors Time of flight mass available spectrometers
Typical GC Chromatography
Trends 320˚C 60˚C Boiling Point Molecular weight
Typical Flavored Distillate Data
Myrcene Terpene S olution
Fruity Pebbles Terpene S olution
Geraniol Terpene S olution
Geraniol Terpene S olution (zoom)
What have we seen? Sample Squalene (% ) MCT (% ) Bisabolene (% ) Vitamin E (% ) Vitamin E Acetate (% ) 1 Viscosity <0.10 2.12 ND ND ND 2 Terp. S ol. <0.10 7.31 ND ND 0.47 3 OLCC RS O <0.10 5.82 <0.50 <0.10 0.31 4 CBD Vape <0.10 7.09 ND <0.10 0.40 5 OLCC Vape 0.66 2.14 3.79 0.12 0.35 6 Viscosity <0.10 ND <0.50 ND 0.71 7 CBD Vape <0.10 ND 0.88 <0.10 0.44
S ummary Independent t est ing laborat ories are focused on t arget ed t est ing Terpene analysis separat es compounds by volat ilit y Typical flavored dist illat e product s have few det ect ed compounds Low-volat ilit y compounds are found in t erpene solut ions Non-cannabis t erpenes were found in OLCC regulat ed product Many viscosit y agent s can be measured wit h current equipment
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