Culture-based methods, such as plating, are considered by some to be the “gold standard” of microbial safety testing. After all, the method is used extensively in the food industry and is validated on a myriad of different matrices. However, cannabis is NOT one of those matrices! To date, there are no published manuscripts to support using … Continue reading 5 Reasons Why Culture Plating Should NOT Be Used for Microbial Safety Testing on Cannabis