CAT4
The Future Landscape of Compliance Testing
We wanted to take the opportunity to check-in with our farming partners to hopefully provide some context and clarity to recent industry chatter related to compliance testing and the newly defined CAT 4 panel. Also known as the "Expanded Panel" or "Pesticide Screen Plus," CAT4 introduces 127 additional pesticides, previously screened in other states, into California's cannabis testing ecosystem.
Rest assured we are here to help our partners navigate these uncharted waters.
What's all the chatter about?
A June article in the LA TIMES entitled The Dirty Secret of California’s Legal Weed documented that some of the products being sold at the retail level had failed testing after they were purchased and retested.
The secondary takeaway, and the reason for this memo, is that there are products (generally termed pesticides, but include insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides) that are not included in the current California compliance testing standard.
By the Numbers
California's current compliance testing standard tests for 66 pesticides.
Colorado’s current compliance testing standard tests for an additional 127.
Impact - What LEEF is Seeing
California’s testing labs are now offering the expanded testing panel for those additional 127 pesticides.
The market is asking for products that test clean from those additional 127 pesticides;
From the expanded panel the most common pesticide that is being found in California cannabis is PYMETROZINE, the active ingredient in the brands ENDEAVOR, FULFILL, DEVENIR & TEMPO.
Potential for New California Testing Regulations
The DCC has yet to articulate its stance on the expanded testing panel; we don’t know if this will become the new standard, but there is enough concern around the subject that consideration should be given to it.
SUCCESS in Uncertainty
Proactively embracing the potentially new testing standards will help ensure that products grown on your farm will be fully compliant. It also has the potential to differentiate your products at the consumer safety level which should drive incremental value on the products that your farm offers.
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"Expanded Panel" or "Pesticide Screen Plus," CAT4 introduces 127 additional pesticides, previously screened in other states, into California's cannabis testing ecosystem.
Acetochlor
Alachlor
Aldicarb Sulfone
Aldicarb sulfoxide
Aldrin
Atrazine
Benfluralin
BHC alpha
BHC beta
Bitertanol
Buprofezin
Carbendazim (MBC)
Carfentrazone ethyl
Chlorobenzilate
Chlorotoluron
Chlorpropham
Chlorpyrifos methyl
Chlorthiophos
Clethodim
Clomazone
Clothianidin
Cyazofamid
Cymoxanil
Cyprodinil
Cyromazine
DCPA (Dacthal)
Diallate
Dieldrin
Diflubenzuron
Dimethachlor
Diniconazole
Dinotefuran
Diphenamid
Diphenylamine (DPA)
Diuron
Esfenvalerate
Ethalfluralin
Ethylan
Etridiazole
Fenarimol
Fenbuconazole
Fenpropimorph
Fenthion
Fenvalerate
Fluazifop-P-butyl
Flubendiamide
Fluchloralin
Flucythrinate
Fluoxastrobin
Flusilazole
Flutolanil
Flutriafol
Fonofos
Formetanate Hydrochloride
Heptachlor
Hexachlorobenzene
Hexaconazole
Hexazinone
3-Hydroxycarbofuran
Indoxacarb
Isazophos
Isopropalin
Isoproturon
Lindane
Linuron
Mandipropamid
Methamidophos
Methoxychlor
4-4'-Methoxychlor olefin
Methoxyfenozide
Metolachlor
MGK 264
Mirex
Novaluron
Thiabendazole
Omethoate
Oxadiazon
Oxyfluorfen
Parathion
Pebulate
Penconazole
Pendimethalin
Pentachloroaniline
Pentachloroanisole
Pentachlorobenzene
Pentachlorobenzonitrile
2-Phenylphenol
Pirimicarb
Pirimiphos-ethyl
Pirimiphos methyl
Pretilachlor
Prochloraz
Procymidone
Propamocarb
Propargite
Propisochlor
Propyzamide
Prothiofos
Pymetrozine
Pyraclostrobin
Pyrimethanil
Pyriproxyfen
Quinalphos
Quintozene
Sulfentrazone
Sulfotep
Tau-Fluvalinate
Tebufenozide
Tecnazene
Tefluthrin
Terbutylazine
Tetrachloroaniline
Tetradifon
Thiobencarb
Tolclofos-methyl
Transfluthrin
Triadimefon
Triallate
Trichlorfon
Tricyclazole
Triflumizole
Trifluralin
Vapamothion
Vinclozolin