Washington state’s cannabis authority has put a handful of marijuana licensees on “administrative hold” as it investigates pesticide contamination in the soil of a specific area of Okanogan County.
The holds apply to cannabis products from five licensees so far, a spokesperson for the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) told MJBizDaily.
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Up to 13 other licensees could be affected by further administrative holds, according to the spokesperson, who noted that a single marijuana business can have more than one license per location.
The regulatory halt affects cannabis companies on “a stretch of former fruit orchards in north-central Washington,” where the pesticide DDT was once used, the Associated Press reported.
The LCB has “identified a pattern of pesticide testing failures that point to product contamination in a specific region of Okanogan County,” the regulator wrote in an April 6 bulletin to marijuana licensees.
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