That just tells us there’s lipids in there, a picture isn’t going to tell us how much. At first he was saying it was over 50%, then a few people call him out and he’s saying it was just an exaggeration. OP should just get it tested and have documentation to show for.
You said it yourself, the lab it was originally tested at was not reliable. I have no experience with them so these are not my words. But if anything I would expect you to back getting it retested somewhere else. I don’t see why this wouldn’t have been done the second he got back.
It was also tested at CCTL labs with almost the same results.
Edit: But I agree it should be tested by the end users trusted lab before attempting any conversion with it.
Nope nope and nope. Any big company NEEDS to have these quality controls in place so this doesn’t happen or they SHOULD NOT be a big company in the first place and they are bound to crash and burn hard…
The reason is that the more impurities are present the less overall yield you get to CBD isolate. You can most definitely take unwinterized crude, distill it, then crash it out and the first crash in pentane will easily be <90% cannabinoids
We have also found that when making isolate if you do not turn it into a giant slab you will be more likely to pass the lipid test. It requires a bit of an unconventional equipment setup but you can keep your isolate in a slurry, and feed it to a filter bed and then recycle that filtered mother liquor back into the crystallization vessel to crystallize it more, and send it back through the filter bad.
Heres a quick SOP rundown
imagine a looped system.
(reactor)-(sealed filter bag)-(solvent tank)
start in reactor, super saturate with hexane at 60c, drop temp to 20c, Wait for a slurry to start, push that slurry through the sealed filter bag vessel and into the solvent tank, take solvent tank solution and bring it back into the reactor, turn to a slurry again, and repeat until you get no more isolate slurry.
Once you are done you will have a filter bag full of fine isolate crystals that require no crushing or grinding. and since you never dropped below freezing you avoided precipitating the lipids into your isolate slab.
Fuck. We just bought 5kg of isolate from Honey Gold and it has a COA from Commonwealth as well.
Also just bought two kg of distillate from @Ruderalis710 … Looks like everyone is slinging Commonwealth’s shit for super cheap. @Kinsmanofthesun, let us know what you find. I don’t have any methanol to check it out myself…
We are just an infused product manufacturer so its not as big of a deal, but I am still curious.
I’m also just using it for CBD products, but also got some extra with the intention of wholesale resale. Either way Fats ain’t Phat! I’ll Photos by Days end
If residues are here, a trained eye will see them by suspending just 100mg in 10ml at room temp…
But using more is indeed more convenient, let s say 500mg in 10ml, in a tube. One could use methanol or acetone for such test. Dissolve the sample at room temperature, and see if residues are present. Then warm it up to 50-60c for 15 minutes, shake ans see if the residues dissolves as well. If so, this would confirm this is likely wax.
Then one could let the tube cool down to room temp to see if residues precipitate again. One could even further place the tube in the fridge (8c), and see if more residues apear, and futher do the same check in the freezer…