Infused beverages are an innovative product category within the cannabis, hemp, mushroom, and kratom markets. However, production involves intricate processes that can affect the final product's stability, potency, and overall quality. Third-party testing is essential to ensure compliance, consistency, and consumer safety.
Beverage Testing Categories
- Cannabis drinks
- Hemp beverages
- THC syrups
- Terpene-infused beverages
- Kratom drinks
- Mushroom elixirs
Matrix-Specific Validation
Understanding that beverages are a challenging product category, we perform matrix-specific validation for all analyses. This process ensures that our testing methods perfectly suit your product's characteristics, whether standard emulsions or nanoformulations.
ACS Laboratory is one of the few laboratories in the United States to be awarded Emerald Test Badges for beverage potency testing.
Our Beverage Testing Services
Explore our comprehensive testing solutions tailored specifically for your cannabis, hemp, mushroom, or kratom-infused drinks.
Potency Testing
Accurately measure the concentration of alkaloids in your infused beverages. Our rigorous potency testing ensures your drinks deliver the intended effects, maintaining brand integrity and consumer trust.
Purity & Compliance Testing
Ensure your beverages meet all regulatory requirements before they hit the market. Or go beyond compliance and conduct purity testing for your consumers’ peace of mind. Safety and regulatory tests screen beverages for active ingredients, contaminants, and residual solvents.
Stability Testing
Our laboratory helps you navigate the challenges of emulsion and nano-formulation technologies used in infused beverages. We conduct specialized tests to assess the stability of cannabinoids and other alkaloids in your products, ensuring they remain effective and consistent over time.
Terpene Analysis
Terpenes not only influence the flavor and aroma of your beverages but also affect the overall therapeutic experience. We offer advanced testing to identify and quantify terpene profiles, ensuring product consistency and batch-to-batch reliability.
Flavonoid Analysis
Flavonoids enrich your beverages' color, taste, and overall health benefits. We conduct advanced testing to quantify flavonoid profiles in hemp and cannabis beverages.
Cannabis & Hemp Beverage Testing
Submit samples of your cannabis drinks, THC syrups, and hemp beverages for potency, purity, and stability testing.
Potency
Cannabis potency testing measures the cannabinoids present in your cannabis sample and measures the strength of those compounds. ACS Laboratory uses Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LCMS), which is the preferred instrument for testing beverages. This method can also test for THC Acid (THCA) and CBD Acid (CBDA), which a gas chromatograph would not.
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Analytes
Instrument
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Terpenes are produced in trichromes (where THC is produced) and give cannabis its distinctive flavor and aroma. Terpenes also act as essential, medicinal hydrocarbon building blocks, influencing the overall homeopathic effect. From the pine odor of pinene to the citrus-like smell of limonene, the characterization of terpenes and their synergistic effect with cannabinoids is reliably identified in the spectral library of terpene analysis to meet terpene profiling needs.
Matrix
Derivatives / Edibles
Analytes
Instrument
(mix of isomers)
(mix of isomers)
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Flavonoids are phytonutrients most important for plant pigments, flower coloration, taste, smell and overall sensory experience. They are a high level of nutrients and are found in many common foods consumed today. They contribute to the growth of cannabis as well as provide other health advantages and an overall sensory experience.
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Purity
Solvent-based extraction produces high-quality concentrates using chemicals like butane, propane, and ethanol. To ensure these potent, terpene-rich formulas are safe to ingest, ACS verifies your product is compliant with all residual solvent limits using Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS).
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Florida
Utah
2,3 Butanedione
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ACS offers the most sensitive and comprehensive pesticide screening and confirmation available utilizing Gas Chromatography - Tandem Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) and Ultra High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LCMS).
Pesticides Testing
Matrix
Analytes
Instrument
LCMS / MS
Florida Guidelines 68
Utah Guidelines 66
Colorado Guidelines 102
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Cannabis collects heavy metals. It absorbs heavy metals from the soil, water and air. ICPMS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry) testing is the gold standard. These toxic elements can be passed from the plant to the consumer and pose serious health risks. Screening for heavy metals ensures the end user will have a safe and confident product. ACS can detect heavy metals at a very low level of concentration, ensuring safety to the end user.
Matrix
Derivatives / Edibles
Analytes
Instrument
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Mycotoxins are contaminants that naturally occur in molds and fungi, which decompose organic matter. You can find molds that contain mycotoxins in a variety of crops such as nuts, spices, apples and coffee beans. You can also find mycotoxins in cannabis flower and its derivative products such as oils, edibles, tinctures and creams. Your hemp or cannabis products are especially at risk for mycotoxins in warm and humid environments.
Mycotoxins can be very harmful to humans, especially in cases of long-term exposure, so you want to be sure that your products are safe for use. Regardless of how carefully you produce and store your cannabis, or how much you trust your business partner’s cultivation methods, you can never be sure that your product is safe until you test with an accredited laboratory like ACS.
Matrix
Analytes
Instrument
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Similar conditions for growth of cannabis are ideal for the germination of microorganisms and bacteria. If cannabis is not tested properly, it may contain contaminants that are harmful for human consumption. These contaminants can lead to serious illness and health complications. Whether a client wants to test cannabis by traditional plate count growth or by qPCR (Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction) technology or by Ultra HPLC MS/MS, ACS provides accurate results of quality that the end user can depend on.
MICROARRAY available for Edibles and Extracts. qPCR TECHNOLOGY available for Flowers and Biomass (flower/mulch). If qPCR is positive then test for Microarray.
Pathogenic (Hemp Compliance Panel)
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Analytes
Instrument
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Stability
Customers shop for brands whose products they trust. The products should contain high-quality ingredients that match the label and are safe to consume. Like all consumable goods, cannabis and hemp quality can degrade over time due to conditions such as temperature, lighting, air and humidity. Through shelf life and stability testing, you can discover how environmental conditions may affect your product’s potency, contamination, color, odor and moisture.
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Mushroom Drinks Testing
Submit samples of your functional, medicinal, and adaptogenic mushroom elixirs for potency, purity, and homogeneity testing.
Potency
Matrix
Analytes
Instrument
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Purity
Matrix
Analytes
Instrument
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Matrix
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Instrument
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Matrix
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Matrix
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Matrix
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Stability
Customers shop for brands whose products they trust. The products should contain high-quality ingredients that match the label and are safe to consume. Like all consumable goods, cannabis and hemp quality can degrade over time due to conditions such as temperature, lighting, air and humidity. Through shelf life and stability testing, you can discover how environmental conditions may affect your product’s potency, contamination, color, odor and moisture.
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Kratom Drinks Testing
Submit samples of your kratom-infused drinks, seltzers, and syrups for potency, purity, and stability testing.
Potency
Matrix
Analytes
Instrument
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Purity
Matrix
Analytes
Instrument
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Matrix
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Instrument
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Matrix
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Matrix
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Matrix
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Stability
Customers shop for brands whose products they trust. The products should contain high-quality ingredients that match the label and are safe to consume. Like all consumable goods, cannabis and hemp quality can degrade over time due to conditions such as temperature, lighting, air and humidity. Through shelf life and stability testing, you can discover how environmental conditions may affect your product’s potency, contamination, color, odor and moisture.
More About Shelf Life Stability
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