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Aspergillus brasiliensis is NOT Aspergillus niger

Medicinal Genomics

You may have heard otherwise, but the truth is that Aspergillus brasiliensis and Aspergillus niger are two distinct species, and A. niger assays that do not exclude A. brasiliensis will produce false positive results. brasiliensis , which is a reference to where the samples were isolated. .

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5 Reasons Why Culture Plating Should NOT Be Used for Microbial Safety Testing on Cannabis

Medicinal Genomics

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 ! Massachusetts requires BTGN testing for all cannabis samples.

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