As regulations strengthen, farmers, processors, and labs need portable, user friendly potency testing solutions. Cannabis & hemp testing is becoming critically important and an integral part of being able to determine product potency and safety.
High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is the industry standard or gold standard for cannabinoid potency testing. It is the most accurate and reliable method to measure cannabis components. HPLC is the acceptable standard used by certified contract labs.
ICON Scientific’s ANSER is your solution for cannabis potency and purity testing. The ANSER is the only true HPLC based analyzer. We are committed to supplying growers, processors, dispensaries, laboratories, and product developers with HPLC solutions for accurate and reproducible cannabis and hemp analysis.
The ANSER is a portable, easy-to-use potency and purity analyzer for the cannabis and hemp industry. No chemistry or chromatography knowledge is required to operate this analyzer. The ANSER is always precise, accurate and reproducible. The fully portable ANSER allows you to test the potency of samples in the field or in the lab.
The ANSER is not only portable, but a miniaturized, turn-key HPLC solution. It has all the performance of a benchtop HPLC without the size. The ANSER includes a column, mobile phase, certified standards and methods.
The ANSER analyzer provides an immediate answer.
ICON SCIENTIFIC, Inc. Introduces…
The ANSER™ Cannabis & Hemp Analyzer
The first and only miniaturized, portable HPLC based cannabis and hemp potency analyzer.
You can now be free of a traditional laboratory and operate the ANSER anywhere you need to with our battery pack option.
Intuitive software control allows the non-chromatographer to operate and easily evaluate his data.
We supply methods:
- For maximum THC concentrations to enable growers to know exactly when to harvest their plants.
- For purity of CBD. To ensure there is no THC in your CBD product.
- For purity of THC.
- Testing of incoming THC or CBD before final product is produced.
- Testing of finished product for either CBD or THC.
HPLC stands for high performance liquid chromatography. HPLC is used for the identification and/or quantification when determining the potency of cannabinoid components. Potency analysis identifies compounds and measures their “potency”, level of strength. Cannabis is made up of 500 or more chemical components. Those most commonly tested for are:
THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), THCV (Tetrahydrocannabivarin), CBD (Cannabidiol), CBDV (Cannabidivarin), CBC (Cannabichromene), CBN (Cannabinol), CBG (Cannabigerol), and CBGV (Cannabigerivarin).
Cannabinoids need to be potency screened at every step for different reasons. Screening begins in the fields, that is why our ANSER field portable analyzer is so valuable to farmers. Growers require accurate potency screening. They need to accurately time harvests, determine the proper profile of the strain and accurately label it. Accurate labeling is essential at all levels therefore precise potency screening is valuable to growers, processors and dispensaries. When cannabinoid components are used for medical treatment it is crucial to know the exact components, potency and purity to ensure accurate labeling.
HPLC can test plants in the field, edibles and liquids. This is because samples can be tested at lower temperatures than with GC. Using GC heat catalyzed reactions occur. Therefore, HPLC is the “gold standard” for potency testing of cannabis. ICON’s field portable ANSER HPLC analyzer is a simple way for cannabis and hemp professionals to test at every level.
Turn-key HPLC Solution
FAST- a Cannabinoid a minute
Same accuracy and reproducibly as a much larger laboratory HPLC
HPLC is the “gold-standard” for cannabis potency testing
Non-chromatographer can operate
Portable
Enables you to increase quality, consistency, and consumer safety
No compromise in quality or performance
Icon Scientific Inc. does not support or promote the use of its products in connection with illegal use, cultivation, or trade of cannabis/hemp products. Icon Scientific products are intended to be used for research use only purposes or state approved medical research. Icon Scientific, Inc is providing an instrument for the cannabis/hemp industry.
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