State regulators voted Thursday to superb a testing lab greater than $57,000 after it was discovered to have deliberately handed on tainted hashish merchandise.
The Hashish Advisory Board voted to approve a $57,500 superb and a 180-day license suspension after discovering that Cannex Nevada, LLC, a Las Vegas-based testing facility, violated state rules when it deliberately handed hashish samples contaminated with microbial contaminants and falsely inflated THC. ranges.
“I don't need to see something fail,” Council President Adriana Guzmán Fralick mentioned earlier than the vote. “I need to guarantee that we defend not solely our licensees, however we’ve to guard the general public.”
The disciplinary motion was much less extreme than initially prompt by a state listening to officer, who really helpful the lab pay a superb of greater than $82,000 and have its license revoked.
The laboratory, often known as Lettucetest LLC, first confronted a criticism by the courtroom in January 2021. This criticism detailed greater than a dozen violations discovered by state inspectors. Earlier than the criticism, the lab was suspended twice.
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Hashish testing lab fined $57,500 after passing tainted hashish merchandise
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