{"id":22899,"date":"2018-06-28T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=22899"},"modified":"2018-06-28T11:07:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:07:44","slug":"california-establishes-testing-pesticides-marijuana-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2018\/06\/california-establishes-testing-pesticides-marijuana-products\/","title":{"rendered":"California Establishes Testing for Pesticides in Marijuana Products"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, June 28, 2018)\u00a0Having voted to allow retail recreational cannabis sales as of January 1, 2018, California will mandate testing for pesticide residue in cannabis products beginning July 1.<\/a>\u00a0Cannabis farmers welcome the regulations. Nikolai Erickson of Full Moon Farms in Dinsmore, California says<\/a>, the new requirements will \u201cclear the shelves of poor quality product and give small craft, organic farmers a chance to prove their quality over larger farms. . . . We\u2019re the ones taking the time and energy, putting in the extra hours and the extra cost to ensure that we\u2019ll pass testing. So we\u2019re creating shelf space finally, getting value added for craft.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new California laws<\/a>\u00a0require that any cannabis products sold by retailers must have undergone both quality and pesticide testing. Whereas from January 1 to June 30, 2018 regulations mandated testing for 21 pesticides and for microbial contaminants, such as E. coli,<\/em> that number jumps to 66 in July. The regulations also institute new quality standards that analyze products for contaminants, such as feces, mold, and insect and rodent parts. The quality\u201cbar\u201d will jump again in December, when testing must also look for mycotoxins, terpenoids, and heavy metals.<\/p>\n

The stakes are high for producers and retailers: if a product batch fails two assays, the state will require that the entire batch be destroyed. In addition, retailers will have to restock their shelves, beginning July 1, with only products that have undergone the new, more stringent, evaluation. All this testing will cost producers, labs, and distributors more; EVIO Labs CEO Lori Glauser says,<\/a> \u201cThe implementation of the new rules will be challenging for all the stakeholders to implement. . . . However, it\u2019s absolutely going to result in improved quality of product and will give consumers peace of mind that the product that they\u2019re purchasing is indeed what it says on the label and that it is free of contaminants.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Humboldt Patient Resource Center in Arcata has required its cannabis inventory to be tested for the past three years. The center made the decision to do so after it received product from cultivators who claimed no pesticide use, only to discover that the products were contaminated with pesticides. As owner Mariellen Jurkovich notes,<\/a> \u201cIf you are buying any cannabis . . . and you\u2019re not . . . buying it from where it\u2019s been tested, you are risking your health,\u201d Jurkovich said. \u201cYou are risking a chance that these things could be filled with very toxic chemicals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond Pesticides has, for a number of years, tracked state-level policies<\/a> on medical and recreational cannabis use. Because cannabis is not a legal agricultural crop under federal law, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not evaluated the safety of any pesticide on cannabis plants. EPA has established no restrictions for pesticides used in cannabis production, no tolerances, nor any exemptions from tolerances for allowable pesticide residues on cannabis. As a result, EPA-permitted pesticide labels do not contain allowances for pesticide use in cannabis production. Beyond Pesticides maintains that because of the federal status of cannabis<\/a> (as a Schedule 1 illegal drug), EPA cannot legally register pesticides for use in the production of the crop. Therefore, the organization asserts, pesticide use on cannabis is illegal.<\/p>\n

The lack of federal oversight for cannabis as a crop has states all over the map as they sort through what pesticides, and at what levels, cultivators might be allowed to use. (A snapshot of where states were a few years ago is available here.<\/a>) State regulations continue to be a crazy quilt of laws and shifting policies that attempt to keep pace with public sentiment, emerging science, and existing health and safety regulations. Currently,\u00a029 states allow some form of medical or recreational cannabis to be sold,\u00a0each with different pesticide rules<\/a>. Some have affirmed the prohibition inferred from the federal situation (either with clear prohibitory language or through regulatory silence with an explanatory note on pesticide prohibition), some allow certain toxic pesticide, and some permit pesticides that EPA has determined are exempt from registration.<\/p>\n

Some of the legislative scrambling constitutes attempts to define allowed pesticide use and management practices in cannabis production. As Beyond Pesticides executive director Jay Feldman has said,<\/a> \u201cThe use of pesticides in the cultivation of cannabis has health implications for those growing the crop, and for users<\/a> who are exposed to toxic residues through inhalation, ingestion, and absorption through the skin. [Some] states and DC have adopted rules that require marijuana to be grown with practices that prevent the use of pesticides.\u201d This moment represents an opportunity to restrict all pesticide use at the front end of a growing market and mandate organic management of cannabis \u2014 setting a course to protect health and the environment. (The USDA certified organic seal will not be found on marijuana products any time soon because of the federal status of cannabis.)<\/p>\n

With more and more states permitting the sale of cannabis for medical and recreational use, governments, growers, retailers, and consumers would do well to consider whether \u201cweed\u201d is harboring unsavory contaminants,<\/a> including pesticide residues, that could be inhaled, ingested, or absorbed. If cannabis is something a consumer plans to ingest, consideration of such contamination ought not be different than that for a decision to buy produce grown with or without pesticides.<\/p>\n

As states struggle to keep pace with this burgeoning industry, some producer groups have taken matters into their own hands. In Colorado, for example,<\/a> faced with the state Senate\u2019s\u00a0indefinite postponement<\/a>\u00a0of a proposed \u201cPesticide-Free Marijuana Bill,\u201d and the failure of\u00a0the Colorado Department of Agriculture to implement meaningful regulations, the Organic Cannabis Association developed a voluntary \u201cpesticide free\u201d certification program\u00a0for growers. The certification focused on residues on the finished product, so still allowed the use of pesticides not on the narrow list of those restricted by the state. No doubt an attempt to distinguish more-sustainably-grown cannabis from other products in the marketplace, the certification program nevertheless was a step in the right direction for consumers who wish to protect themselves from unwanted pesticides in their cannabis products.<\/p>\n

Early in 2018, Canada took the step<\/a> \u2014 in the runup to its July 2018 launch of the recreational market and after discovering that there was significant contamination of cannabis crops by proscribed pesticides \u2014 of instituting very hefty fines (up to $1 million) on growers using the banned compounds. Previously, Health Canada, the country\u2019s primary pesticide enforcement agency, had said fines were unlikely because companies knew the banned pesticides were illegal. However, after the\u00a0country began regular testing, and news outlets began reporting<\/a>\u00a0on multiple instances of banned and highly toxic pesticides making their way onto the market, the agency decided to change its approach. Health Canada currently allows some\u00a020 pesticide products<\/a>\u00a0for use on cannabis, most of which are biologically based or least-toxic insecticidal soaps.<\/p>\n

A few states (Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Massachusetts) and the District of Columbia have adopted regulations that focus on less-toxic approaches to cultivation of medical cannabis, with some focus on ensuring growing practices that avoid or prohibit the use of pesticides. The federal \u201climbo\u201d provides an important opportunity for states to incentivize the development of a significant industry built on production practices that do not rely on pesticides.<\/p>\n

Beyond Pesticides opined<\/a>, in the Winter 2014\u20132015 issue of its journal, Pesticides and You,<\/em><\/a> that in the absence of useful federal regulation or guidance on the potential impacts of pesticide use on cannabis \u2014 to consumers, workers, and the environment \u2014 states should at the very least provide clear rules to producers regarding sustainable production practices that are protective. As crop production of cannabis increases, we have an opportunity to restrict all pesticide use at the front end of a growing market, require the adoption of organic systems plans, and set a course to protect health and the environment.<\/p>\n

Primary source: Times Standard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Beyond Pesticides, June 28, 2018)\u00a0Having voted to allow retail recreational cannabis sales as of January 1, 2018, California will mandate testing for pesticide residue in cannabis products beginning July 1.\u00a0Cannabis farmers welcome the regulations. Nikolai Erickson of Full Moon Farms in Dinsmore, California says, the new requirements will \u201cclear the shelves of poor quality product and give small craft, organic farmers a chance to prove their quality over larger farms. . . . We\u2019re the ones taking the time and energy, putting in the extra hours and the extra cost to ensure that we\u2019ll pass testing. So we\u2019re creating shelf space finally, getting value added for craft.\u201d The new California laws\u00a0require that any cannabis products sold by retailers must have undergone both quality and pesticide testing. Whereas from January 1 to June 30, 2018 regulations mandated testing for 21 pesticides and for microbial contaminants, such as E. coli, that number jumps to 66 in July. The regulations also institute new quality standards that analyze products for contaminants, such as feces, mold, and insect and rodent parts. The quality\u201cbar\u201d will jump again in December, when testing must also look for mycotoxins, terpenoids, and heavy metals. 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