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GMP Requirements for Labeling | Podcast
GMP Requirements for Labeling If you are a hemp or botanical extraction business creating high quality distillate and isolate products for consumers, quality, safety and compliance with local and national regulations is paramount. It is vital that your products are...
How To Pitch Your Plan | Podcast
How To Pitch Your Plan How to Pitch Your Plan! So, you’ve decided to create your first hemp extraction startup. You’ve planned out your location, what products you will make, what solvent you will use for extraction, and more. You have it all figured out! Or do you…...
[Execute] Top 5 Success Factors for CBD Brand Leaders | Podcast
[Execute] Top 5 Success Factors of CBD Brand Leaders The Top 5 Success Factors of CBD Brand Leaders continues! In our last episode, Dr. Jon and Randall Thompson continued the conversation of CBD brand leader practices by discussing how to identify your personal...
[Legal] Top 5 Success Factors for CBD Brand Leaders | Podcast
[Legal] Top 5 Success Factors for CBD Brand Leaders The Top 5 Success Factors of CBD Brand Leaders continues! In our last episode, Dr. Jon and Randall Thompson began the discussion by talking about the first steps in the top five CBD brand leader success factors -...
[Planning] Top 5 Success Factors for CBD Brand Leaders | Podcast
[Planning] Top 5 Success Factors for CBD Brand Leaders Top5 Success Factors for CBD Brand Leaders. The CBD industry has undoubtedly offered a fantastic opportunity for entrepreneurs to create exciting and successful new brands. These CBD business opportunities are...
Hemp Processing Bootcamp | Podcast
Hemp Processing Bootcamp The hemp plant is an incredibly versatile, useful plant for a plethora of applications. Through hemp processing, hemp can be harvested and used for a variety of purposes including industrial use in the form of textiles and fibers, or...
Ultimate List of Hemp Strains | Podcast
Ultimate List of Hemp Strains What is the ultimate list of hemp strains? Believe it or not, not all hemp plants are created equal. Varying hemp strains can determine the formulation, effects and quality of a CBD extract. The reasons for this are plenty - varying...
Top 5 Reasons to be EU GMP | Podcast
Top 5 Reasons to be UE GMP When it comes to the United States, the legality and regulation of CBD is relatively straightforward under the 2018 Farm Bill. In the EU, however, regulations of CBD vary greatly making GMP compliance a more complicated conversation overall....
Insider Secrets to Selecting a Hemp Processor | Podcast
Insider Secrets to Selecting a Hemp Processor Business partnerships in any industry can be as risky as they are lucrative. When it comes to choosing a partner in the CBD extraction industry, there are important factors to consider just like any other business...
Top 5 Things Investors Need to Know About CBD Processing | Podcast
Top 5 Things Investors Need to Know About CBD Processing When it comes to CBD processing and the hemp extraction industry, investors have become increasingly interested in their involvement. With the CBD industry projected to grow by the billions within the next few...
Seed to Sale Tracking | Podcast
Seed to Sale Tracking From farming the perfect hemp plant all the way to final product formulation, there are important considerations for any processor to consider from seed to sale. This includes every step of the extraction process including grinding,...
Hemp Startup 101 | Podcast
Hemp Startup 101 There are many questions that you need to ask when starting a new business or even upgrading your facility to accommodate more production. Since 2014, extraktLAB has been heavily involved in putting hundreds of hemp manufacturers in the business of...
How to Make Delta-8 THC | Podcast
How to Make Delta-8 THC There is no doubt that CBD has swept the world as one of the hottest cannabinoids from the hemp plant. With the introduction of the 2018 Farm Bill, a whole world of hemp derived products. So long as a product has a THC content below 0.3% any...
Chromatography Explained | Podcast
Chromatography Explained Chromatography has become critically important for the widely popular formulations of CBD products including full-spectrum, broad-spectrum, and CBD isolate - all of which are increasingly desired in the growing hemp extract markets. With the...
Bottlenecks Solved! | Podcast
Summary of Bottlenecks Solved Bottlenecks are an issue within any business and inside any industry. These issues are never easy to solve, but there are always solutions. Inside the hemp industry there are many potential areas in the process that can lead to...
Full vs. Broad Spectrum and Isolate | Podcast
Full vs. Broad Spectrum and Isolate Product formulations are a critical part of the CBD extraction process, but sometimes it can get complicated. What is full spectrum distillate? How is it any different from broad spectrum distillate? And what about CBD isolate? All...
extrakTALKS Interview: Dr. Benjamin Caplan | Podcast
extakTALKS Interview: Dr. Benjamin Caplan In this special episode of extrakTALKS, Dr. Jon sits down with Dr. Benjamin Caplan to discuss a number of health related topics in the hemp and cannabis industry. Dr. Benjamin Caplan of CED Clinic has served as Chief Medical...
All Things Distillation | Podcast
All Things Distillation Distillation is not a new technology by any means, but advances in the industrial hemp industry are appearing in strides. From essential oils, to spirits, to hemp concentrates, the distillation process is critical to create a pure, refined...
Advanced Solvent Removal Without Rotovaps | Podcast
Advanced Solvent Removal (Without Rotovaps) The step of solvent removal in CBD extraction and formulation is not just important, it is essential to creating a product that is pure and safe for consumption. In this episode of extrakTALKS, Dr. Jon and Randall Thompson...
How to Make the Best Tincture Ever | Podcast
How to Make the Best Tincture Ever! There are a variety of CBD products that are rapidly gaining popularity, and tinctures are among them. While many customers may know what they want in a CBD tincture, they may not know to make CBD tincture – let alone how they are...