Testing lab Gobi responds to EdiPure slam: We don't want anyone recalled

After being slammed by a pot-infused edibles company suffering the blow of its third pesticide-related recall, a cannabis-testing laboratory in Colorado has a message it wants known: “We don’t want to see anyone in the industry have their product recalled or quarantined,” Gobi Analytical said in a statement released to The Cannabist this week.

In the wake of recalls totaling more than 60,000 edibles packages over concerns that the products contained potentially dangerous pesticides, EdiPure earlier this week criticized Gobi Analytical, the private testing lab contracted by the city of Denver to determine the presence and levels of banned pesticides in pot and marijuana products. EdiPure called Gobi’s methodology “dubious at best, relying more on voodoo math and junk science than certified and standard scientific testing methods” in a notice posted on its social media.

In Gobi’s statement, the lab says it sympathizes with the embattled cannabis industry,...

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