I will think about it. S**t is gonna get expensive. JK
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If and when the time comes let me know Iāll grab samples for you from stores in my area.
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Canāt imagine anything living through isomerization or distillation, but Iāve seen gummies and the like get molded. Mycotoxins would be the most appropriate test for disty
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I was just joking. I got this. I really appreciate it though.
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on this topic- i make a gummy bear. people love it. they quit weed and just eat my gummies. But- I made a batch for an order and had to deliver within hours so its all dusted in cornstarch and i get too into details. I tell him to refrigerate it because it a bunch for himself so he isnt eating it fast. He says- I never refrigerated the last ones you gave me so why these? I say- its food, it molds if you leave it out at room temp fr months. he repeats that the last ones didnt? So i say i use a antioxidant and some potassium sorbate and he stares side eyed? he doesnt like preservatives yet he rejects refrigeration? whats in a petri dish= gelatin.
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A petri dish has agar lol
Use potassium sorbate and dry them properly. if itās worth doing, itās worth doing right
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i do it right, all you have to do is wash the cornstarch in cold water. its better than a oil. they begged for it that day is why its dusty. id dust them a few days and then wash and dry and thats shelf stable without the dust.
An plants 
Not much will survive the temps used for distillate
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Yes, you gotta choose the right media for the organism youāre targeting. Look into tri-plates, you can find them in any combination of media. I used to be big into research into on-farm microbial testing for cows (mastitis). Still-air chicken egg incubators work perfectly fine for growing the nasties that are risky to us.
Edit- removed the part I was telling OP because I donāt know how to read
Link was just for you Homie.
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This is a fantastic resource, wow. Is this the plate/media used in labs for that purpose? Might buy an incubator just so I can try this out with some bubble hash and see how bad it really is.
you mention āhow bad it isā? test some cigarettes and other stuff you put in your mouth. Im not concerned with bacteria unless its from an animals poo or something like that.
Iām thinking more about mold and yeast and stuff that does bad things to you when smoked/inhaled. Iām just curious how contaminated air dried hash is. It would be a good way to gauge the safety of beautiful traditional frenchy-style pressed products
I donāt think thereās a good chance of organisms surviving and populating after the lyophilization process so these tests donāt really apply as well for commercial bubble. I would assume some kind of flow cytometry would be the right solution for that but I really have no idea, Iām just a cow guy that likes hash.
Well Iām pretty sure that even if you run moly nugs(disgusting) the .2micron filter will filter out the mold sporesā¦
The rosin/live rosin tests would be the ones to watch out for as there is moisture present and itās not filtered through anything that small, but Iāve heard that BHO can allow mold if thereās moisture presentā¦
But if thereās no mold then it canāt growā¦
And I could be wrong but aflatoxins donāt show up in cannabis, thereās another kind of poisonous mold that does
But the medicine can be used my people with compromised immune systems so people should always do shit with that in mind
I agree with you there, I think the ability to go to 0.2 in hydrocarbon or etoh makes those products inherently safer from a microbiology standpoint. SHO should be treated like a food product and have proper HACCP and SSOPs tho
Oregon does moisture testing in leu of mold testing because you can mostly eliminate mold growth from continuing below a certain moisture percentage (~12% iirccfor flower & biomass samples).
Theyāll mandate mold testing (again) soon. Above rule is a bandaid. Itāll be ripped off soon and standards will increase.
That used to be needed for medical.
Then, because a lot of people were failing, they decided to elinate it to make it easier on the shitty growers
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Might you also test how many endotoxins and pyrogens are present? Just because the bacteria is dead doesnāt mean its body isnāt still aroundā¦
Thanks.
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