by Jill Ellsworth | Oct 6, 2026 | Decontamination & Microbial Safety
Aspergillus flavus in cannabis is one of those problems that can make a clean looking batch fail anyway. You can run a tight grow, dial in dry rooms, and still get a COA that stops production cold. That is not because your team is careless. It is because A. flavus is... 
by Jill Ellsworth | Oct 5, 2026 | Decontamination & Microbial Safety
Failed cannabis batch waste is the kind of problem that looks like “just a COA issue” until you add up everything that went into that batch. Not just the biomass and the expected revenue, but the water, power, HVAC time, packaging, labor, and schedule space you will... 
by Jill Ellsworth | Oct 2, 2026 | Industry Insights & Technology
Preventive cannabis quality systems change what your day looks like: fewer last-minute holds, fewer “what happened?” meetings, and a whole lot less time staring at a COA that just blew up your schedule. If you have been in cannabis for a while, you know the drill. A... 
by Jill Ellsworth | Oct 1, 2026 | Decontamination & Microbial Safety
A cannabis microbial sampling plan lives or dies on the choices you make before anything leaves the production floor. If the “batch” is fuzzy, the grabs are convenient instead of random, or the sample is too small to capture real variation, you can get a clean-looking... 
by Jill Ellsworth | Sep 30, 2026 | Decontamination & Microbial Safety
Cannabis decontamination capacity is the thing that tends to get real during peak harvest, usually right after you realize your drying rooms are on schedule and your trim team is flying, but your “ready for sampling” lots keep stacking up in quarantine. You already...