State officials declined to comment on whether this week’s recall was the largest in state history.Ī former Michigan State Police employee, Welch runs the laboratory alongside two other police veterans - former MSP toxicologist Dr.
He also said the company was responsible for testing about 67% of all of the recreational and medical weed sold in the state of Michigan over the last five years. Todd Welch, the chief operating officer of Viridis Laboratories, told City Pulse in May that his Lansing and Bay City locations provided testing services for more than 250,000 lbs. Those who consumed the products and are experiencing any subsequent adverse health reactions should report them at 51. Labs like Viridis also test for THC content and terpene profiles to ensure customers have as much detail as possible about precisely what’s getting them high.Īspergillosis has been tied in other situations to contaminated vaporizer cartridges - and it usually takes a while for symptoms like coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath to develop, according to the American Lung Society.
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“Consumers with weakened immune systems or lung disease are at the highest risk for health-related incidents such as aspergillosis, which can impact lung function, if these potentially harmful products are consumed,” according to a press release sent yesterday.Ī spokesman for the MRA declined to elaborate further about the testing concerns while a state investigation at the Lansing and Bay City labs continues this week, though research shows that aspergillosis could be triggered as a result of consuming cannabis contaminated with heavy metals - something that is supposed to be weeded out by testing at a licensed laboratory.īefore gummies and eighters can hit pot shop shelves, state law requires the products to undergo a rigorous series of tests for the presence of microbes, moisture, pesticides, heavy metals and other contaminants. The recall, which was specifically attributed by state officials to “inaccurate and/or unreliable” test results, applies to all marijuana flower, edibles and other products tested by the laboratory over the last three months - except for inhalable concentrates like vape cartridges, live resin and distillate. of products sold at more than 500 provisioning centers across the state of Michigan. State officials couldn’t immediately quantify how many products were recalled because of the enormity of the recall - which has been estimated to have affected more than 50,000 lbs. 18 - A massive statewide recall of marijuana has forced just about every pot shop in Greater Lansing - and hundreds more across Michigan - to pull thousands of products from their shelves due to concerns over inaccurate test results from a lab in Lansing.Ī notice issued yesterday by the state's Marijuana Regulatory Agency called for the recall of untold thousands of cannabis products that were tested by Viridis Laboratories in Lansing and Bay City between Aug.
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