Overview
- Assured Testing Laboratories agreed to replace its CEO, pay a $300,000 fine and accept two years of probation with independent audits as prerequisites to ending its June suspension
- Regulators will maintain the suspension through Sept. 15 but could lift it as soon as Aug. 21 if the lab meets all compliance conditions
- The Cannabis Control Commission flagged over 7,000 marijuana products for potential yeast and mold contamination and issued an advisory urging consumers and retailers to verify and dispose of affected items
- A cannabis workers’ rights advocate called the deal insufficient to protect employee and consumer health given the scope of the contamination
- Assured Testing disputes the underreporting findings but said it looks forward to resuming “scientific, evidence-backed testing” once the required steps are completed