Book:Past, Present, and Future of Cannabis Laboratory Testing and Regulation in the United States/Laboratory testing of cannabis/Laboratory accreditation
3.3 Laboratory accreditation
Chapter two briefly discussed the accreditation of a cannabis testing laboratory, but a bit more should be said. As was mentioned prior, cannabis labs and their relevant tests are typically accredited to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard. This includes the likes of the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB)[1] and the American Association of Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA).[2] However, through the American Council of Independent Laboratories (ACIL) and its Cannabis Working Group (CWG), a specific national standard for cannabis lab accreditation is beginning to take shape. Referred to as CanNaLap (Cannabis National Laboratory Accreditation Program) and based on ISO/IEC 17025, the national standard has been developed "as a mechanism to ensure the effective performance of all cannabis testing labs operating in the United States."[3] Additionally, the ACIL also seeks for the FDA and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to "support and endorse" CanNaLap "as a means to establish standards of competency for testing market participants."[3] ANAB has already begun to address CanNaLap as part of its supplemental accreditation requirements[1], though time will tell if CanNaLap becomes a fully adopted national accreditation standard in the U.S.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Cannabis Testing Laboratory Accreditation Program". ANSI National Accreditation Board. https://anab.ansi.org/laboratory-accreditation/cannabis-testing. Retrieved 05 August 2022.
- ↑ "Cannabis Testing". American Association of Laboratory Accreditation. https://a2la.org/accreditation/cannabis-testing/. Retrieved 05 August 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "ACIL Cannabis Testing Recommendations" (PDF). American Council of Independent Laboratories. 2019. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.acil.org/resource/resmgr/cannabis/acil_cannabis_testing_recomm.pdf. Retrieved 05 August 2022.
- ↑ Independent Laboratories Institute (7 February 2020). "Retraction Press Release, Relating to a Press Release issued on November 26, 2019: ILI Approves ANAB to Accredit Cannabis Testing Labs". ACIL. https://us15.campaign-archive.com/?u=2bcd20cfa44e75ad1763de02c&id=3d2dc1c5ea. Retrieved 05 August 2022.
