Grants and Contributions:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019).

In July 2018, the Federal Government of Canada is set to legalize the use of cannabis for recreational purposes.x000D
It is incumbent therefore for cannabis producers to make available products that are clean and safe. It isx000D
well-known that smoking of plant material such as tobacco and cannabis products containing pesticides canx000D
yield complex mixtures of compounds, many of which are more toxic than the compounds initially present inx000D
the material. In response to this, Health Canada has acknowledged the importance of measuring products forx000D
human consumption for a suite of chemicals to show that they contain non-measurable amounts of chemicalsx000D
that are known to be detrimental to the health of the end-user. While a definitive target listing of compounds tox000D
be tested in recreational cannabis has yet to be finalized; this is especially true for the pesticides, thex000D
Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) recently established a Cannabis Expert Working Group inx000D
conjunction with Health Canada to address this issue. Presently, samples to be used for medical purposes needx000D
to be tested for a suite of organic compounds including cannabinoids, mycotoxins, terpenes and pesticides.x000D
However, only the pesticides suite of chemicals need to be measured by a third part laboratory. As such, Deltax000D
9 Biotech would like to be able to perform some of the analyses of other non-pesticides in-house to reduce thex000D
overall cost of their sample analyses. The laboratory at University of Manitoba will therefore develop a unifiedx000D
single analytical method to measure cannabinoids, terpenes and mycotoxins in dried plant material using liquidx000D
chromatography tandem mass spectrometry.