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Growers and labs press for testing reform and larger batch sizes; lab-shopping and microbial standards debated
Summary
Outdoor farmers and independent testing lab representatives urged changes to testing thresholds, batch sizes and sampling requirements, and warned that current microbial limits and sampling rules are ill-suited to outdoor production and may encourage lab-shopping.
Growers, independent testing laboratories and scientists told the Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy that current testing rules — especially low microbial thresholds and small sample‑batch sizes — are poorly fitted to outdoor cultivation in Massachusetts and are discouraging farming and creating quality control problems.
Outdoor growers argued the state’s total yeast and mold and total aerobic bacteria thresholds are too strict for outdoor-grown flower, that current batch‑testing rules (a representative sample from every 15‑pound batch) are costly and arbitrary, and that a larger representative batch (for example, 40…
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