What We Test

Our clients bring us many types of cannabis products, including cured flowers, concentrates (hash, solvent extracts, keif, oils, wax, capsules, etc.), edibles (such as chocolates, cooking oil, candies, baked goods, and beverages), and topicals. Using HPLC technology offers us the ability to get accurate quantitative results of edibles and topicals, a task Gas Chromatography (GC) is unable to perform. If you have a unique product or product line, we offer method development services to help you fine tune potency for consistent offerings. 

**Please note that new products do require method development.  If your product is unique or we simply haven't tested it in the past, please allow additional time for method development.  Additional costs may be assessed.  Please contact us in advance to discuss cost and timing. 

What We Test For

Our assays have been carefully developed with HB 3460 compliance in mind.  Our Full Compliance testing suite offers every thing a dispensary needs to stay compliant with State testing laws, as well as ensure the safety of consumers and the quality of products on the shelf.  Our testing methods are based on relevant industry standards that have been approved by AOAC, AHP, ODA, USP, EPA and FDA for testing agricultural commodities meant for human consumption. We are also currently preparing for NELAC and ISO 17025 accreditation.

We test for:

• Cannabinoid Potency (Δ9THC, THCA-A, CBDA, CBD, CBN, CBG)
• Microbiological Contaminants, such as mold, mildew, and yeast
• Pesticides/Fungicides (fully compliant to State regulations)
• Terpenes – Coming Summer of 2014!
• Sex Determination - Coming Summer of 2014!
• Genome Sequencing - Coming Summer of 2014!
• Residual Solvents – coming soon!

How We Test

In designing our lab, we’ve taken AOAC (Association of Analytical Chemists), AHP (American Herbal Pharmacopeia), FDA, USDA, NELAC (National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference) and ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 17025 very seriously. Every good lab should be able to stand up to scientific scrutiny, and stand behind the methods they’ve chosen to conduct their testing. Laboratory accreditation takes about 2 years to accomplish, and since our industry is so new, we’re just getting started. It’s our goal to be accredited by 2016, and as such, the standards approved by the above organizations are a foundation of Oregon Growers Analytical. We know how to get it done right, and we’re not cutting any corners.

When evaluating a third party lab, it’s important to ask about methods, instrumentation, and Standard Operating Procedures. We’ve chosen our instrumentation carefully based on the commodities and compounds we’re testing. Cannabis has many active compounds: there are over 100 cannabinoids, 120+ terpenes, and 29 flavonoids that we know of today. Many cannabinoids are heat sensitive, changing under high temperatures to reform as other cannabinoids. This also applies to pesticides and fungicides.

There are two types of instrumentation that are qualified for testing cannabis: Gas Chromatography (GC) and High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). Since a gas chromatograph uses heat during the analytical process, it’s unable to accurately quantify many of the compounds found in cannabis. This is why we’ve chosen HPLC as our primary analytical instrument for testing cannabinoids and pesticides.

Contact us today to discuss how OG Analytical can meet your testing needs.