I just got some live resin from out medical dispo here in Hawaii. They extract using butane/propane but I see in the COA traces of other solvents which would have no place in a BHO extraction. Can anyone explain the acetone , isopropanol and ethanol residuals? Equipment cleaning perhaps?
Isopropyl is often used in cleaning and was probably cross contaminated from that. Sometimes terpenes/volatile organic compounds can degrade to acetone or methanol with heat.
They were using cleaning agents from hardware store. The only chemicals to see cannabis labs should be lab grade or specific technical grade like for scientific uses etc.
Even running alcohol from a drug store since not meant to be injected can have a variable amount of random solvents present.
This is a test from some eatables on the CA rec market here that use food grade ethanol to homogenize the cannabinoids in
Those test results are super high ppm IMO
It does look like they were using isopropyl alcohol mainly for cleaning and not ethanol, id assume isopropyl would probably have the same residuals as ethanol
I’ve seen this before. Could be solvents coming off a sharpie, or copied metrc tags being put in a warm oven with extract. Or as others have suggested, a sloppy analytical lab and it’s not actually there, not a lot to worry about, IMO.
But wow, the action limit on butane is 5000 ppm???
Are we sure that space lasers caused the fires in Hawaii? Cuz it really coulda been some gassy BHO.
Ask the testing lab for the method blank results. Their LOQ for each analyte should be set above the concentration of those solvents seen in the method blank.
If the method blank is showing similar concentrations as your sample, then I would attribute it to contamination from the testing laboratory
Acetone has been proven to be made inside the HS vial from terp reactions / rearrangements
