{"id":28,"date":"2021-08-27T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themehorse.com\/preview\/newscard-sport\/?p=28"},"modified":"2021-09-27T20:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T03:43:48","slug":"the-first-quality-minded-questions-to-ask-your-cbd-ingredient-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the420areacode.com\/2021\/08\/the-first-quality-minded-questions-to-ask-your-cbd-ingredient-supplier\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Quality-Minded Questions to Ask Your CBD Ingredient Supplier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There is a lot of confusion about how to evaluate the \u2018best\u2019 CBD ingredients that will be consumed as finished products. But the types of questions to qualify a CBD ingredient for your consumer product starts out as basic, simple questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first question may be obvious \u2013 but it is important to ask it first, because it will eliminate many offers without wasting more time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere was the plant material grown?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us say the answer is \u201cColorado.\u201d That is fine \u2013 but we want to drill down more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo you know the farmer?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWould we be able to talk to the farmer?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you cannot talk to the farmer \u2013 then we want to know about what other information we can get about where and how the material was grown. If the farmer is not known, or your material is combined from multiple farms, then a follow-up question might be this one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat kind of information can you provide about where and how the material was grown?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point, if you are getting a blank stare or the runaround, then you might as well assume your supplier does not really know where the material was grown, aside from the state in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next question relates to how the material was processed after harvest. Typically, the harvest is cured\/dried on the farm, or a facility near the farm. Then it is transported to a processing facility where is milled and extracted. (Sometimes, drying, milling and extraction occur at the same facility).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere was the material processed?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow was the material processed?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This line of questioning shows how much (or how little) your supplier knows about how it was processed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, the material might be called \u201cfull-spectrum,\u201d and they can offer a lab test report, also known as a \u201clab COA.\u201d But what solvents are used? Were Good Manufacturing Practices employed? Which level of GMP\u2019s? (Note: There is food GMPs and supplement GMPs, which are very different from each other). Does the ingredient contain non-cannabis ingredients?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a lot of questions you can drill down on, but to start with the basics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere is the processing facility? What kind of GMPs do they meet?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once we get through the main GMP related questions, we can address the primary documentation requirements for the product \u2013 the next set of quality-minded questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be sure to see my follow-up entry<\/a> where these questions will be answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a lot of confusion about how to evaluate the \u2018best\u2019 CBD ingredients that will be consumed as finished products. But the types of questions to qualify a CBD ingredient for your consumer product starts out as basic, simple questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the420areacode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the420areacode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the420areacode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the420areacode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the420areacode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the420areacode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the420areacode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the420areacode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the420areacode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the420areacode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}