Location: San Diego, California / Virtual

Attending Canna Pharma this November? Our expert Beth Kroeger-Fahnestock will speak at this comprehensive event on advancing the science of cleaning, sterilization and decontamination in medicinal cannabis through GMP, quality control and emerging therapeutic applications.

Wednesday, November 10 | 8:00 a.m.
Best Practices for Ensuring Patient & Consumer Safety in Cannabis and Hemp Manufacturing -- A Novel Approach for Cleaning and Disinfection
Presented by: Beth Kroeger-Fahnestock

Part I: Designing Quality Into Your Product

• How to build quality into Cannabis production and manufacture of extracts to reproducibly deliver therapeutic benefit and the role of cleaning validation
• Identify critical quality attributes (CQAs) of final product to control to meet target product quality profile
• Design processes to produce the product having these attributes and identify critical process parameters (CPPs) to control for CQAs
• Best practices adapted from pharma to control tissue culture, cultivation, and cGMP manufacturing process environments resulting in fewer lost batches and reduced costs.

Part II: Contamination Control - Environmental and Equipment

• Understand what “clean” means so you can better defend your process to inspectors, auditors, and investors
• Time-kill data for common disinfectants
• Pesticide removal
• Understand the cleaning parameters that impact cleaning processes
• Best practices and a novel approaches for equipment cleaning to optimize your cleaning process and ensure your extraction equipment is efficiently cleaned to produce Quality product that is safe for patients
• Improving contamination control in cannabis cultivation and extraction processes and meeting regulatory requirements at each of these stages