Symbiotic AD
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Not to sounds like a total prick Sym, but your asking him to share cup winning tech, on an open public forum. To establish a good purging tech you will spend thousand of dollars on analytical results and hrs of r&d.
Regardless if your products are intended for retail outlets, spending the money on analytics and spending the time developing your own data and tech should be a priority. There's not too much to getting low ppms other than patience and data.
You're not being a prick, I follow the school of thought that if you don't try than the outcome is always failure. I respect that he has proprietary tech, but I just wanted to know if it was what would be considered a basic purge or something more complex.
I'm not so concerned that my product wont have low residual solvent levels, but more concerned with the rare opportunity to ask a professional, cup-winning, extractor a question about something he is clearly very passionate about and very skilled in.
I currently have a Gas Chromatography instrument from SRI with the column necessary to test for residual solvents within my extracts, the issue is that my lab isn't full constructed so I can't utilize the instrument. I'm also not implying that I don't tend to have my concentrates laboratory tested, in fact its quite the opposite, every batch that is produced out of my facility is going to be sent out to a third party lab. Again, I ask for the potential to learn more from a professional and to get my gears turning, not to short-cut my process.
Edit: And my background is in Nuclear Pharmaceutical Quality Control. I am very much an advocate for collecting data to optimize product development and ensure the safety of the product.
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