Be confident in your CBD purchase. A certificate of analysis or COA as its commonly referred to, is of crucial importance to determine the CBD you are purchasing is what it says it is. Those guidelines are there to protect the consumer. Chances are you purchased CBD to compliment a healthy lifestyle, so you’ll want to ensure the best chances of it being effective. This means ensuring you have a quality product as well as ensuring you are receiving value for money so you can compare CBD products against each other. If a product price seems to good to be true… it probably is! CBD production is extremely expensive when its being done properly, following all the guidelines to protect you, the consumer. Some companies also try to pass off mg of hemp extract as being the same thing as CBD! Never ever buy a product unless they provide a COA, reputable companies will have these easily and readily accessible UPFRONT prior to purchasing to allow you to make an informed choice. Here at Heart Hemp we are totally upfront and transparent with our COAs, we have nothing to hide and everything to gain by showing we have a top rate product. Always check the certificate is from a reputable laboratory, there are many unscrupulous sellers, some forge certificates or use companies (sometimes unknowingly) who are not reputable. Check the lab names exists and their accreditation. Heart Hemp products are tested at ADACT Medical Ltd here in the UK to ISO 17025 ADACT are a member of The medical Cannabis Clinicians Society The COA is there to provide clarity and transparency. Once you feel reassured the lab cert you are looking at is legitimate and from a credible lab, lets take a look at the header of one of our lab cert. This is our last batch of 1000mg tincture peppermint Check the data matches up to the company you are purchasing from, HH Wellness is our legal entity, we trade as Heart Hemp, you will find this information in the website pages usually in the Terms of Service page. How far back is the date on the COA. If its any longer than a year, be wary. I would expect the maximum amount of time between re-testing products to be much less in practice via-third party labs. Does the product match what you are looking to purchase? All good CBD suppliers should let you know which batch your product comes from prior to sale and when you receive your product there should be something on the bottle/jar which ties back to the batch number so you know you received a product from that batch, if it has a different batch number go back online and check the COA against yours. That’s the easy part, now comes the complicated part, there is no uniformity to COAs from one lab to another. We are showing ADACTs but we may sometimes use a different lab whose certificate may be on a % of CBD in the product rather than the mg per ml. In the rest of this certificate for our 1000mg tincture peppermint the certificate is mg of CBD per ml of liquid. The bottle is a 10ml product, so anything on the lab cert x 10 is what the total bottle consists of. As you can see its pretty complicated, some reports do add up all the CBD and all the THC together. Also many lab certs test the THC is below <0.0025, our lab certs are testing for THC being below <0.05 these markers simply mean that there was no more than 0.05 found of that item, as that was all it was testing for (like a true or false answer). CBD – here we see CBD is the primary ingredient by quite some way, that’s a good start the CBD is 100.0246 in 1ml, which means in 10ml we have 10x’s more CBD in the bottle than on the COA and our product has MORE CBD than the labelling. Some companies allow a tolerance of +/- 10%, we are all for the + tolerance here, but you want at least what you paid for, we would advise why settle for less than that? THC – here we see it is less than 0.05 individually and well below the legal limit, we are looking to have the test set to a lower setting in future, we have been told our THC has typically been a combined of approx. 0.003 this is classed as THC free it is so low it will not show up in a blood test CBG, CBC, CBA these are only found in full spectrum and broad spectrum oils and are even so reputed as a healthy supplement to compliment a health conscious lifestyle some people take them on their own. These extras provide what is know as the entourage effect, something you won’t find in an isolate which has all but the CBD removed. Finally, check the footer of the test certificate, it should be checked, authorised, signed and dated after the sample received date. You might even find a QR code to take you directly to the third party labs website. If all looks good, you are ready to either make an informed choice on a purchase or start to compare and contrast against other products and decide what is value for money. Here at Heart Hemp we are all about transparency, we have already done the maths legwork for you on every product with a price calculation showing price per mg of CBD, as well as amount of CBD in a drop to help you work out your dosage guide on our handy dosage chart. This is an extract from our 1000mg Tincture Oil Original If you’ve got this far, we hope you found this article informative, we have even more articles to read in our news blogs or perhaps you want to check out one of our yummy CBD recipes. You can also find our full range of CBD products here Thanks for reading!
