California, like many other states, has evolved a more present needs for quality control in the cannabis market. I came on as a technician in this analytic chemistry lab and eventually took on a small microbiology department.

While working in method development with quantitative polymerase chain reactions (qPCR), I also trained in and eventually managed data acquisition and analysis for a 61-pesticide panel via LC-MSMS. We detected a lot of really tiny things.