Extraction of Pesticides from Cannabis Flower and Edibles

Cannabis and its products are on the road to being legalized throughout the United States. Because of the risk of pesticide exposure through inhaled and consumed cannabis products, the pesticides in the plant material and its products must be monitored. Traditionally, the QuEChERS method has been used to extract pesticides from plants and food matrices, but cannabis and its products have shown time and again that cannabis is a difficult matrix to work with. Because of this, a simple, efficient method that produces high recoveries and repeatable results is still needed. The matrix effects for each matrix were found to be 70% to 130%. [...]these data indicate that the EDGE is an excellent choice for the extraction of pesticides from cannabis material and edibles.