Book:LIMS Buyer’s Guide for Cannabis Testing Laboratories
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Title: LIMS Buyer’s Guide for Cannabis Testing Laboratories
Edition: Summer 2021
Authors for citation: Shawn E. Douglas, Alan Vaughan
License for content: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Publication date: August 2021
This guide recognizes the challenges of the current cannabis testing environment for laboratories and identifies the value of the laboratory information management system (LIMS) towards lessening the impact of those challenges on the cannabis testing lab. However, what makes for a quality LIMS that can have a positive impact on the lab, and what features are specifically required? How should the acquisition process be approached, and who are the key vendors selling such solutions? And what questions should labs be asking—perhaps as part of a request for information (RFI) process—of vendors to ensure they are actually going to get a LIMS that practically meets the lab's needs? This guide addresses these topics and more, and it provides additional resources at the end, which may be useful to not only LIMS acquisition but also developing analytical methods and maintaining regulatory compliance.
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- About this book
- Introduction
- 1. Cannabis testing and research: An overview
- 1.1 Cannabis legalization, use, and research
- 1.2 Regulation and standardization of cannabis testing
- 1.3 Why test?
- 2. Laboratory testing of cannabis and its derivative products
- 2.1 Analytical aspects
- 2.2 Analytical methods and tools
- 2.3 Cannabis testing laboratory workflow
- 2.4 Certification and reporting of results
- 3. LIMS, informatics, and cannabis testing
- 3.1 Informatics and automation in the cannabis testing lab
- 3.2 LIMS flexibility for cannabis testing and other markets
- 3.3 Cannabis LIMS considerations
- 3.4 Data privacy and management
- 4. LIMS acquisition, implementation, and support
- 4.1 Business considerations
- 4.2 Acquisition and licensing
- 4.3 Implementation, maintenance, and warranty
- 4.4 LIMS solutions for cannabis testing labs
- 5. An RFI for evaluating cannabis testing LIMS vendors
- RFI introduction
- LIMS: Primary cannabis testing workflow
- LIMS: Workflow and operations maintenance and support
- LIMS: Interoperability and system performance
- LIMS: Software security, data integrity, and related policies
- Cloud infrastructure, security, and related policies
- Account management and support
- License agreements, service level agreements (SLAs), and contracts
- Service implementation
- Pricing
- 6. Final thoughts and resources
- 6.1 Final thoughts
- 6.2 Key reading and reference material
- 6.3 Consultancy and support services
- 6.4 Additional resources
