Alyse Thompson-Richards

In a Food Safety Summit session sponsored by Columbia Laboratories, Kathy Knutson, microbiologist and independent consultant for EAS Consulting Group, noted that players in the traditional food and beverage industry are accustomed to good manufacturing practices (GMPs), while the cannabis industry largely is not.

For many cannabis edibles manufacturers, large-scale equipment requires a significant amount of capital and offers more capacity than they need — at least at the beginning. 

Cannabis Products Insider recently spoke to Hempak's Ryan Zvibleman about hemp as a packaging material, the company's patent-pending child-resistant jars, and the need for sustainable cannabis packaging.

3CHI has introduced D-SPEC, short for Delta Specific, a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) testing method that offers accuracy and reliability in determining the contents of hemp-derived products.

Cannabis Products Insider recently spoke to Matt Smith of Silverson Machines and Erin Dillon of Charles Ross & Son Company about their companies’ cannabis experience, the importance of shear, and other crucial mixing and manufacturing considerations.

UniMax floor mount hoods are constructed of chemical resistant, non-conductive modular panels fea¬turing composite resin surface material.

Available in four varieties, Happy Flower is rolling out now to meet accelerating demand for healthier alternatives to alcohol.

Cannabis Products Insider recently spoke with Shar Puskala at Berlin Packaging and Charles Haverfield at U.S. Packaging and Wrapping, about different child resistance systems, the role of testing in compliance, and how to encourage child resistance without barring seniors from consuming cannabis products.

As cannabis food and beverage producers begin operations — or establish manufacturing in a new market — they need to dial in their expected output as their business expands.

Tinley’s will vacate its manufacturing facility in Long Beach, California during the latter half of Q2.