FluroTech may have found something promising.

The Calgary-based company is developing biotracker technology that it believes will be a useful tool in determining whether a cannabis strain came from a legal or illegal source. It reports an initial test of the technology on a batch of hemp plants, grown and harvested outdoors, revealed that the roots absorbed and spread the trackers throughout the entire plant.

“FluroTech is continually exploring unique ideas to solve issues plaguing current seed-to-sale in this nascent industry,” Danny Dalla-Longa, CEO of FluroTech, said in a statement. “Our primary goal is to help the legal participants in the cannabis and hemp industry differentiate their product from that produced in the illicit market.”

The company believes its tracking technology, once perfected, holds the potential to combat issues such as the current vaping health scare.

If vaping cartridges had biotrackers attached to them, it would be possible to determine legal products from the more dangerous offerings found on the black market.

With at least 13 people dead and hundreds more suffering from a mysterious lung disease in the U.S., some officials believe the cause of the crisis lies in counterfeit vape cartridges.

Federal health officials said that nearly 77 percent of cases of patients with vaping-related lung injuries had used products containing THC, adding to evidence that such vaping devices and cartridges are lead suspects in the widening epidemic.