A Denver medical marijuana business is voluntarily recalling a small batch of cannabis concentrates it manufactured.
Concentrates business recalled 123 individually packaged grams of Super Silver Diesel Shatter sold at two locations owned by pot shop — at 2777 S. Colorado Blvd. and 1736 Downing St., both in Denver. The recall was announced Wednesday by — the agency s , which are separate from the state of .
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The recalled Avicenna Products concentrates contain residual levels of myclobutanil, a pesticide chemical that is banned for use on marijuana in Colorado. City officials say an lead to the materials behind the Avicenna Products recall.
Gov. John Hickenlooper in November declared that any marijuana grown with unapproved pesticides is .
We ve been thrown under the bus, and I can guarantee (this pesticide) is not from us, said Babak Behzadi, a registered pharmacist and owner of Avicenna Products. It must have existed in the trim originally.
The trim in question was purchased from Nutritional Elements, which does business as The Health Center, according to the city. The concentrates were then sold back to The Health Center s shops so they could sell them to customers, Behzadi said.
Calls to The Health Center were not returned.
Consumers who have any of the recalled product — which show batch number 00085 and an expiration date of 3-18-2017 — should throw it away or return it to the point of purchase, DEH said.
The recall is , when state agencies appeared to take over the process from the city. It s also Denver s first since it earlier this month.
We re not testing for the purposes of monitoring degradation, said Dan Rowland, a spokesman for Denver s office of marijuana policy. You re not going to get a test result that says it s hot and say, Let s hold it for a while and six months later test it again and say, Oh look, it s degraded — let s release the hold.
A hot result is now the end of story.
