Laboratory Standards & Certification

This consortium includes faculty members from the departments of Environmental & Molecular Toxicology, Food Science & Technology, Crop & Soil Science, Pharmacy, and Chemistry. The group’s overall focus is to conduct research and gather information on analytical methods for the assessment of compounds of interest relating to hemp and hemp products across the entire production chain. Potential hemp research includes topics such as:

• Providing support and curation for sample receipt, preparation and processing for research projects
• Identification of robust quantitative methods with a high standard of quality assurance/quality control for analysis of cannabinoids, terpenes and other phytocompounds of interest
• Coordination of a testing lab network throughout the United States
• Changes to plant chemoprofile in response to practices throughout the processing chain, contributing to a green, circular economy
• Quantitation of cannabinoids and other biomolecules in biological matrices and measurement of health indices in livestock consuming hemp as feed material
• Identification of relevant toxicology assays to assess environmental and consumer safety of hemp products

Current Research Projects

• Developing, validating, and implementing identification and quantitation methods for natural products produced by industrial hemp, based on project needs: OSU Researchers Jennifer Duringer, Fred Stevens, Richard van Breemen, Michael Qian, and others
• Determination of cannabinoid profile across hemp varieties and locations: OSU researchers Jennifer Duringer, Chris Ringo, Jeffrey Steiner, and others

Past Research Projects

• Establishment of freely available standard operating procedures for the industrial hemp community detailing plant sampling, preparation, and cannabinoid analysis: OSU researchers Jennifer Duringer, Jeffrey Steiner, and others
• Quantification of cannabinoid profile across experimental variables such as differences in genotype, cultivation practices, harvesting, and processing: OSU researchers Jennifer Duringer, Chris Ringo, Fred Stephens, Jeffrey Steiner, and others
• Measurement of fiber growth across hemp varieties and harvest periods; quantification of hemp metabolites in livestock fat in response to dietary hemp: OSU researchers Manuel Garcia-Jaramillo, Nathan Parker, Massimo Bionaz, Julia Honneffer, Jennifer Duringer, and others