White Paper Authors Sajni Shah, Ali Wasti, and Dr. Markus Roggen DELIC Labs, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada Greg Kozadjian, Jean-Louis Cabral, and Yanqia Wang Agilent Technologies, Inc. Overview Extraction of active ingredients such as cannabinoids, and in many cases terpene compounds, from plant matter is an important process in cannabis production that creates a more refined and potent product. There are three types of extraction typically used: hydrocarbon extraction, alcohol or ethanol extraction, and supercritical CO 2 extraction. In combination with extraction, extractors also generally carry out other postprocessing steps such as decarboxylation that are needed to prepare the extracts for consumption or further processing. Cannabis plants naturally produce the can

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