Product recalls have been called for by two Colorado edible companies on their own products. The first company is Edipure, recalling 20,000 packages of these products: Peanut Brittle, Raspberry Jellies, Sour Gummi Bears, Rainbow Belts and sundry licorice delivered to forty retail stores. The second company is Gaia’s Garden, recalling 8,000 packages of 21 products, some of which have already been shelved at 176 retail stores. Consumers who have already bought these products have been told to either throw out the products or return them to stores.
Both of the companies purchased the cannabis they used to make the edible from TruCannabis, a company who had called for a recall earlier in October because of concerns over pesticide uses. There have not been any scientific studies to figure out how safe the pesticides used on food crops are, so the Colorado Department of Agriculture introduced a rule stating that it does not recommend “the use of any pesticide not specifically tested, labeled and assigned a set tolerance for use on marijuana because the health effects on consumers are unknown.”
The legal cannabis industry has been negatively portrayed because of scandals and product liability lawsuits because of the use of fungicide myclobutanil in Eagle 20, and the use of insecticides imidacloprid and the miticide abamectin in Avid. Before that, though, these pesticides were considered to be environmentally friendly. The Environmental Protection Agency has not helped out in guiding a safe administration of pesticides to marijuana because cannabis is still federally illegal. Because of that, Colorado has been forced to impose their own regulations with no reliable data on pesticides with cannabis flowers, extracts, or edibles.
You will not see an organic label on ay cannabis products because “organic” is a federally regulated term which cannot be legally applied to cannabis products. Even then, there are still producers who try to look after the health of both consumers and the environment such as Honest Marijuana, Colorado Harvest Company and Maggie’s Farm – which has been Clean Green certifie.
