The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published the first results from last year’s Cannabis Quality Assurance Program (CannaQAP).

It’s an overdue program that was initiated because of the need for reliable and proficient laboratory testing.

One objective of the program was to study laboratory performance to improve test-measurement comparability across laboratories and to “provide feedback about performance that can assist participants in improving laboratory operations.”

The July 2021 report represents the first of at least three well-planned exercises that call for laboratory participation across the industry (for example, independent labs, regulatory bodies and forensic labs).

For this exercise, NIST prepared a series of three well-characterized and statistically significant “homogeneous” hemp oils that contained up to 17 cannabinoids.

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