A Sacremento based cannabis testing lab is in hot water after authorities discovered that the company falsified test results.
Per Fox 40
A marijuana testing lab in Sacramento has been shut down after it was found to have been falsifying lab tests.
It was one of only four marijuana testing labs in Sacramento.
“They told us they saw an irregularity in the reports being submitted,” said Steven Dutra, the general manager of Sequoia Analytical Labs.
Last Tuesday, investigators from the Bureau of Cannabis Control found the lab’s director, Marc Foster, had been falsifying reports since July. Not a single batch of marijuana inspected there was tested at all for 22 specific pesticides they’re required to be checked for.
“We were told by our lab director that all these new pesticides had been set up and that all was going well with that,” Dutra said. “Of course, we found out last Tuesday that was not the case.”
Dutra said Foster was let go the next day.
“As ownership and management, we were blindsided by this,” Dutra told FOX40.
The damage has been done. He estimates about 700 batches of pot, up to 50 pounds each, have been shipped out without proper lab testing.
The new results will result in the largest marijuana recall to date.
