CSQ Provides Route for Less Developed Cultivators, Extractors and Manufacturers to Achieve Accredited Certification

This week, Cannabis Safety & Quality (CSQ) launched its first present Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) audit and present Good Agricultural Practices (cGAP) audit particularly constructed by and for the hashish business, versus competing applications out there which can be modeled after meals or dietary complement audits. Required by most manufacturing firms, GMP audits are third-party inspections that determine operational flaws and authorized violations. 

GMPs define the situations and practices the business ought to observe for processing secure merchandise underneath sanitary situations. CSQ’s cGMP and cGAP audits are step one inside a scientific steady enchancment course of that was structured to assist hashish and hemp operations develop efficient hashish security and high quality administration techniques.

The CSQ Certification Program and relevant requirements function safety for hashish and hemp manufacturers by minimizing the chance and making certain regulatory necessities are met from seed-to-sale. Nonetheless, for a more recent business like hashish, abiding by these stringent requirements that had been in-built 2020 to fulfill ISO necessities and World Meals Security Initiative (GFSI) benchmarking necessities stays a problem for small to medium-sized operations to fulfill presently. 

In an effort to enhance market entry alternatives for small suppliers working regionally, cGMP certification or cGAP certification is the primary steered step to turning into licensed by CSQ. This tiered strategy is supposed to assist smaller and fewer developed operators regularly degree up in direction of full CSQ certification by encouraging them to begin with a decrease degree normal like cGMP, later including a cGMP+ certification which incorporates Hazard Evaluation Essential Management Factors (HACCP) earlier than lastly getting CSQ licensed. 

“We observed when conducting CSQ trial audits that it was too massive of a soar for the hashish business, particularly smaller gamers, to go from zero to at least one hundred when striving to fulfill CSQ’s degree of requirements. If a facility turns into cGMP or cGAP licensed, not solely will the power be extra assured in being up-to-date, extra intensive certifications are introduced inside attain, like a CSQ certification,” stated Tyler Williams, Founder and Chief Technical Officer of CSQ.