Hemp Testing Menu
Our hemp/CBD testing solutions were designed to help you optimize product quality while mitigating risk—protecting your production processes, your brand’s reputation, and ultimately your customers. Driven by customer-centric innovation, our suite of solutions provides critical tools to cultivate, manufacture, and distribute hemp-derived products.
SC Laboratories’ assays and quality systems are accredited to ISO 17025:2017 in California and Colorado, as well as by ORELAP1 in Oregon, and we are a certified hemp testing lab in many states throughout the country.
What can we test?
SC Labs can test hemp flowers, concentrates, leaves, e-liquids/vape oils, crystallized isolates, as well as liquid and solid infused products such as coconut oils, tinctures, and edibles. Don’t forget about your inputs! We test beeswax, rolling papers, chocolate, food additives, terpenes, environmental inputs like soil, and more.
To customize a hemp test program that fits your needs, contact SC Labs to review the appropriate panel options by state or test method (USP2 <61><2021>, AHPA3, AHP4, and AOAC5).
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Pre-Harvest and Compliance Test Packages
We have been servicing hemp cultivators with pre-harvest compliance testing in Oregon since 2018. This experience, coupled with a decade of cannabis testing in California, allows us to provide a complete program for industrial hemp analysis.
State hemp lab licensure registrations in CA, CO, IL, OR, PA, and TX.
Hemp Flower/Biomass Test Packages
Pre-Harvest Hemp Testing
New Colorado Compliance Package | Hemp Dried Flower
Meets Colorado hemp regulations (CDPHE).
Hemp Product Test Packages
California Compliance Package | Hemp Product Inhalable
Meets California hemp regulations (CDPH and DCC) for inhalable products.
California Compliance Package | Hemp Product Non-Inhalable
Meets California hemp regulations (CDPH and DCC) for non-inhalable products.
New Colorado Compliance Package | Hemp Extract
Meets Colorado hemp regulations (CDPHE).
New Colorado Compliance Package | Pre-Tested Finished Product
Meets Colorado hemp regulations (CDPHE).
New Colorado Compliance Package | Finished Product without Input Testing
Meets Colorado hemp regulations (CDPHE).
Oregon Concentrate/Extract Compliance Package (2 Samples)
Quality Assurance Test Packages
While THC concentrations of industrial hemp may have been analyzed at pre-harvest, additional safety and potency testing may be warranted for consumer-ready items. For some states, additional contaminant and safety tests are now required prior to processing and prior to reaching retail shelves.
We offer one of the nation’s most complete test packages for hemp/CBD quality assurance. Bundled panel options were developed to target a comprehensive list of contaminants, address state compliance rules, and meet guidelines established by the USP, AHPA, AHP, AOAC, DCC6, or ORELAP.
Hemp Product Test Packages
Comprehensive QA Package | Hemp Product
Meets national hemp testing standards (participating states).7
California QA Package | Hemp Product Inhalable
Meets California hemp regulations (CDPH and DCC) for inhalable products.
California QA Package | Hemp Product Non-Inhalable
Meets California hemp regulations (CDPH and DCC) for non-inhalable products.
Basic QA Package | Hemp Product
Reports relevant contaminants.
New Colorado QA Package | Hemp Extract
Meets Colorado hemp regulations (CDPHE).
New Colorado QA Package | Pre-Tested Finished Product
Meets Colorado hemp regulations (CDPHE).
New Colorado QA Package | Finished Product without Input Testing
Meets Colorado hemp regulations (CDPHE).
Oregon Concentrate/Extract Compliance Package (2 Samples)
Hemp Flower Test Packages
Comprehensive QA Package | Hemp Flower
California QA Package | Hemp Flower
Basic QA Package | Hemp Flower
New Colorado QA Package | Hemp/Dried Flower
Meets Colorado hemp regulations (CDPHE).
Oregon Usable Flower Compliance Test Package
Terpenoid Analysis
Among our four laboratories, SC Labs utilizes gas chromatography – flame ionization detection (GC-FID) to analyze a total of 44 terpenoids. Terpenoids are the aromatic compounds that endow cannabis and hemp with their unique scent and effect. Learn more.
Terpenoids Test Panel
Pesticide Analysis
SC Labs’ pesticide and plant growth regulator analysis utilizes high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS) or gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Learn more.
Hemp Compliance Panels
Standard Pesticides Test Panel – California
Reports 66 analytes per California hemp regulations (CDPH and DCC).
New Standard Pesticides Test Panel – Colorado
Reports the 102 analytes per Colorado hemp regulations (CDPHE)
Standard Pesticides Test Panel – Oregon
Reports 58 analytes per Oregon cannabis regulations.
Expanded Hemp and Quality Assurance Panels
Comprehensive Pesticides Test Panel – National Hemp
Reports 106 analytes. Meets national hemp testing standards (participating states).7
Basic Pesticides Test Panel
Reports the 18 analytes most commonly detected in cannabis and hemp.
Residual Solvent / Processing Chemicals Analysis
SC Labs’ residual solvent analysis utilizes gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Learn more.
Hemp Compliance Panels
Standard Residual Solvents Test Panel – California
Reports the 20 analytes per California hemp regulations (CDPH and DCC).
New Standard Residual Solvents Test Panel – Colorado
Reports the 13 solvents (26 analytes) per Colorado hemp regulations (CDPHE).
Standard Residual Solvents Test Panel – Oregon
Reports 25 analytes per Oregon cannabis regulations.
Expanded Hemp and Quality Assurance Panels
Comprehensive Residual Solvents Test Panel – National Hemp
Reports 64 analytes. Meets national hemp testing standards (participating states)7
Hemp Compliance Panels
Expanded Hemp and Quality Assurance Panels
New Expanded Metals & Trace Elements Test Panel
Reports 14 analytes that may represent soil or manufacturing impurities.
Microbiological Contaminant Analysis
Analysis is conducted either by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and fluorescence detection of microbiological contaminants or by plating using 3M™ Petrifilm™ and plate counts of microbiological contaminants. Learn more.
Various bundled panel options were developed to target a comprehensive list of organisms, address state compliance rules, and meet guidelines established by the USP, AHPA, AHP, DCC, or ORELAP.
Hemp Compliance Panels
Inhalable Microbiological Contaminants Test Panel – CA Compliance
PCR test method. Reports 6 organisms following California hemp regulations (CDPH and DCC) for inhalable products.
Non-Inhalable Microbiological Contaminants Test Panel – CA Compliance
PCR test method. Reports 2 organisms following California hemp regulations (CDPH and DCC) for non-inhalable products.
New Standard Microbiological Contaminants Test Panel – CO Compliance
PCR test method. Reports 5 organisms following Colorado hemp regulations (CDPHE).
Expanded Hemp and Quality Assurance Panels
Comprehensive Microbiological Contaminants Test Panel – National Hemp
PCR and Plating test methods. Reports 18 organisms. Meets national hemp testing standards (participating states).7
Expanded Microbiological Contaminants Test Panel
PCR and Plating test methods. Reports 14 organisms. Expanded panel ideal for stringent product safety and quality testing requirements.
Standard Microbiological Contaminants Test Panel
PCR and Plating test methods. Reports 6 organisms. Covers relevant list of contaminants using advanced PCR and traditional plating methods.
Water Activity Test
Results are displayed in units (WA) from 0 to 1.0.
Moisture Content Test
Results are displayed as a percentage (%).
Vitamin E Test Panel
Reports 4 analytes.
- Tocopheryl Acetate
- α-Tocopherol
- δ-Tocopherol
- β- and γ-Tocopherol
- Oregon Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (ORELAP)
- United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
- American Herbal Products Association (AHPA)
- American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP)
- Association of Official Analytical Collaboration (AOAC)
- California Department of Cannabis Control (DCC)
- Meets most national hemp testing standards in terms of action limits and analytes for contaminants including pesticides, heavy metals, microbiology, mycotoxins, residual solvents, and water activity. Does not apply to inhalable hemp sample types.
