In this fifth installment of a series on growing conditions for hemp used as a remediation crop, the presenter walks viewers through how to evaluate pesticide and heavy‑metal safety using Certificates of Analysis (COAs). He shows a three‑page pesticide report, pointing out that every entry shows “ND” (no detect), meaning no detectable pesticide residues in the finished product. He then reviews a heavy‑metal analysis covering arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury, explaining that results are either below the limit of quantification or not detected, which is crucial because hemp can absorb contaminants from the soil. The speaker stresses the importance of verifying soil quality and COAs before marketing hemp products, invites questions, and previews the final episode of the series.
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Little different today, got a ski hill video for all of y'all to talk about growing conditions today. So part 5 of the series, we're going to be going through pesticides and heavy metals. So it is a remediation crop as we've talked about before, so really important to make sure that the soil conditions are right and then test for those afterwards. So gonna go through that page today. All right, so here is the pesticide page— sorry, pages. It's about 3 pages, so lots of different pesticides on here. Um, nobody knows— I'm sure somebody, but I certainly don't know what they all are. But all you're really looking for is over here, right? So your Recolt ND is no detect, so that's pretty much what you're looking for all the way down, all the pesticides Pesticides, ND, ND, ND, page 2, ND, ND, ND, ND, all the way down to page 3, ND. So all of our products, clear pesticides, no detectable pesticides in any of the finished product. Um, and then the other soil growing condition thing is the heavy metal analysis. So we're looking at arsenic, cadmium, lead, uh, same thing, either less than the limit of quantification, so the lab equipment could not detect it, or a no detect in a past. So that's also really important too. You've got arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, things that are in the soil. This is a bioremediation crop, so it will pull all those, that stuff up. So if you're not really careful with how you grow your hemp, you'll end up with, uh, with— you can end up with some of that stuff in it. So that's what we're looking at with the COA from a growing conditions and soil quality perspective. Yeah, so that's it for pesticides and heavy metals. Go ahead and drop a comment if you have any questions or want us to look through anything of yours, and we'll be back tomorrow to finish up this series.
