Resources

Understand a certificate

• How to read a COA
  A section-by-section walk through one real, indexed certificate.
• How to verify a COA is real
  Checks anyone can run on a certificate: where the QR code leads, lab-operated result portals, license numbers.
• COA glossary
  The terms a certificate prints, in plain language: ND, LOQ, action level, informational panel.

What the tests mean

• Pesticide testing
  What a pesticide panel screens for and the panel size each state mandates.
• Potency testing
  What total THC, total CBD and THC per serving mean on a certificate.
• Result qualifiers
  What not detected, below quantitation limit, not reported and not tested each mean.
• Zero-tolerance analytes
  The analytes where any detectable amount is a failure.

Official sources

• Regulator directory
  The state recall feeds this index ingests from, plus the official license and laboratory lists.
• Recall record
  Every recall on file from the California DCC and New York OCM, each linked to its source.

The data itself

• Dataset download
  The full export as CSV and JSON, with every CSV column documented.
• Reports
  Dated reports on what the whole index shows, with every failed batch named.
• Methodology
  How the consistency score is built, weight by weight, including its limitations.