I like this guy’s view of today’s NR(Facebook) One good side of this news today:
Tetra is establishing itself as on the side of patients and consumers. "We will continue to provide reports to Health Canada so that the Canadian government receives Tetra’s data in a timely manner so that regulators can ensure the safety and wellness of all Canadians consuming recreational and medical cannabis.” In this statement they are saying this is not just about Tetra's PPP001 product from Aphria (right now) but applies to all recreational and medicinal cannabis. Nobody has been testing for it, I don't think. Correct me if I'm wrong in this assumption, but I don't believe most even any are testing for mycotoxins the way Tetra did.
It's making Tetra a whistleblower.
They are saying directly here that Health Canada needs to study this for "all Canadians consuming recreational and medicinal cannabis". Well, they did the right thing. That speaks well of them. And it only should put things off on PPP001 for six months. Maybe less. They have a lot of great other projects going, besides PPP001, and remember, this doesn't knock out PPP001 or change the results they have been having in the Phase III.
It has nothing to do with some fault of theirs in the study, that PPP001 doesn't do what we have seen it do. It has to do with tainted product getting into not only Tetra's bulk cannabis from LPs, but if them, then all the product out there is suspect, you must understand. All the product that has not been tested for these specific mycotoxins, and the Cannabis Act has NOT required it, then you have to ask yourself, if Aphria's product the only one? Since nobody is testing for anything but the one mycotoxin, the answer is no, they don't know.
What we have here is that Tetra went beyond the required testing others use, and discovered something in the product that tainted it, that others didn't know because they didn't test for it, and then they blew the whistle, even though it caused them to delay their study. This should be seen on a lot of news channels interviewing Dr. Chamberland and what it implies for the rest of the industry. Best practices is going to have to ramp up and notch and ozonation of product is probably going to be implemented on a wide scale.