The study s authors who published their findings on plos one an open access science journal collected data from in state testing labs as well as testing equipment manufacturers to calculate the average cost for various tests required for a product to be compliant.
Marijuana testing equipment cost.
There are many different cannabinoids that all have distinct medicinal effects.
A testing equipment will cost approximately 700 000 depending on productivity.
Costs between 100 to 200 for a cannabinoid test from a certified lab on a hplc machine.
They found that testing costs varied greatly depending on the type of test.
Cannabis testing equipment enables natural cannabis compounds to be extracted from raw plant material tested for potency and tested for a range of contaminants including pesticides residual solvents heavy metals moisture and microbes.
Cannabinoid testing can be carried out in certified laboratories on a hplc high pressure liquid chromatography or a gc fid ms gas chromatography flame ionization detector mass spectrometry machine and actually cost between 100 to 200 per sample you have to test.
The most important component of cannabis testing is the analysis of cannabinoid profiles also known as potency.