Interesting article that just came out on this topic:
The lab is being accused of inflating THC numbers to make their customers happy and under-reporting on contamination. Will be interesting to see what comes of this investigation.
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Is everyone here familiar with “Lightlab” its a cheap portable LC-MS unit that gives accurate numbers on ~5 in few minutes? Cost in consumables is $6/sample run. The education needed to run it is very minimal, it can be trained in an easy procedure to a person without a chemistry background. Reliable to within 5% of the reported value, meaning a 20% THC by weight has an uncertainty range from 19-21%. That’s pretty accurate for consumer level numbers and great for in house testing needs.
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That seems a lot better than the results people have been getting from the MyDx unit. How expensive is the Lightlab device @marco, do you know?
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I think prices are not currently fixed or if so not publicly stated, but word on the street is under 15k
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That’s not bad. Might be something a collective of growers could pitch in together and purchase for situations like @caribbeangreen where they don’t have a choice of labs to go to.
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That’s about what I’d expect for a portable device such as that. I’ve been trying to tell people that good, accurate machines aren’t as cheap as a laptop. 
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In response to the article about testing anomalies in Washington, Oregon is totally out of control. How can bud have a higher THC value than kief? Does anyone here believe that bud can really be over 40% THC? There are so many ways to cheat the test that any claim about approved procedures, etc. is so much BS.
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