by Jill Ellsworth | Oct 15, 2026 | Decontamination & Microbial Safety
BTGN cannabis testing tends to trip up teams who are otherwise doing a lot of things right. You can have drying tuned, your yeast and mold numbers trending down, and your Aspergillus plan dialed, then a COA comes back with a BTGN fail and it feels like it came out of... 
by Jill Ellsworth | Oct 14, 2026 | Decontamination & Microbial Safety
TAC cannabis testing can feel like a pop quiz you did not study for. You ship a lot, you get the COA back, and suddenly there is a big number staring at you like it is trying to start an argument. Before you start rewriting SOPs at midnight, take a breath. TAC is... 
by Jill Ellsworth | Oct 13, 2026 | Decontamination & Microbial Safety
Salmonella cannabis risk is one of those problems that can hide in plain sight. You can open a bin and everything looks dialed in, aroma is on point, moisture feels right, and then the COA comes back with a pathogen detection that stops the whole release plan. In most... 
by Jill Ellsworth | Oct 12, 2026 | Decontamination & Microbial Safety
Aspergillus niger cannabis control is not something you handle once, write an SOP, and forget about. It is one of those facility realities that keeps showing up because the spores are common indoors, they move with everyday airflow and foot traffic, and they tend to... 
by Jill Ellsworth | Oct 9, 2026 | Decontamination & Microbial Safety
Aspergillus fumigatus in cannabis is one of those topics that keeps popping up in audits, COA reviews, and “why did this lot fail?” conversations, even at facilities that do a lot right. Regulators call it out by name because the downside of missing it can... 
by Jill Ellsworth | Oct 8, 2026 | Decontamination & Microbial Safety
Penicillium cannabis is the kind of issue that shows up when you are doing a lot of things right, then one small part of the post-harvest routine drifts. A door gets propped open. A dry room runs a little wet overnight. A cart bounces between rooms because harvest is...