Hey guys.
Excelent thread and worth a million bucks litteraly.
I worked with several extraction companies in Eu but it seemed that a pharma GMP for API from BDS is is really still a rarity in EU besides GW and Bedrocan.( People were looking st me like wtf is this guy complicatiing things were cooking oil!) Cosmetics are more frequent and food grade is still top dog.
Seems GMP will be booming in EU if CBD goes back to the narcotics division, but for now everyone is making food grade, natural cosmetics and such
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Im an agronomic conusltant for cannabis GAP and GACP for cannabis cultivaiton, and also a part of a small analytics company(4 pharmaguys and me an agronomist) who do CBX+ TERPs and Residual solvents in different cannabis relat3d edibles, extraxts cosmetics.
Let me just say its the wild wild west over here, never saw a residual free extract ( IPA <50ppm, or EtoH >5000ppm, beside GMP materials ofc), and the products are selling in stores like hot cakes. One sample had 100k ppm IPA i mean shame on you producer!!
Not to mention claims of 99.7% isolate test is more of a fullspectrum first pass slopy cromatography ( this was stipulated because of 0.03thc, 0.09 cbg and some 0.04 cbc to top of the cbdv in a supposed excelent first grade isolate)
Not to mention market claimed best price FS oil, thats just isolate and MCT and a collorant…
What I want to say is that GMP should be a guidance tool to anyone who wants to be really safe and sure that they arent causing a small % of the users harm. My friends say Generate More Paper, and justify your work well. I say its been a great experience working with GMP people and it fills me with hope that its reaching cannabis industries around the world.
At least my gammy’s will buy some clean product from the farmacy now, since she has been vary of my home kitchen :))
I thank you for your information it has been a great review of the past endeavors with serious companies
Sorry to drop in if you need some help getting the biomass into GMP i could try and help…
Otherwise imma sit quiet and let the pharma guys talk