The Massachusetts Hashish Management Fee (CCC) final week ordered the hashish testing lab Assured Testing Laboratories to stop operations after officers mentioned they’d recognized suspicious patterns within the lab’s yeast and mould check outcomes, MJ Biz Each day reviews.

Particularly, the official sampling information submitted by Assured exhibits the testing lab failed simply 10 samples out of 17,565 for holding extreme yeast and mould, or a 0.05% failure charge. The state’s common hashish testing failure charge for extreme yeast and mould, in the meantime, is 4.5%.

A CCC spokesperson mentioned the suspension was due to a process pressure geared toward bettering “product testing as a part of the Fee’s mission to supervise a protected, equitable hashish market in Massachusetts,” based on the report.

Representatives from Assured, in the meantime, have defended the testing lab’s work. The corporate’s CEO and founder, Dr. Dimitrios Pelekoudas, advised the Boston Herald that the corporate has adopted regulators’ each instruction.

“There’s a basic precept on this state and on this nation that earlier than you lose all the pieces by the hands of the federal government, you have got a proper to look in some discussion board to defend your self. Assured Testing Laboratory, a regionally run enterprise with 33 staff, did nothing fallacious right here, posed no menace to the general public, and ensured that no contaminated merchandise reached the market.” — Dr. Pelekoudas, by way of the Herald

Dr. Pelekoudas known as the problem a “easy disagreement about how information was being reported,” and that the corporate was submitting a lawsuit to enchantment the choice regardless of having stopped operations indefinitely, per the suspension order.

Dr. Pelekoudas additionally famous that the CCC just lately needed to reissue sure laws that had been unclear, however he mentioned that “Always, Assured Testing Laboratory complied with all energetic laws and orders.”