Journal 01 · Field notes · 18 min
GMP-washing the skid
How a salesperson turns stainless into a certificate — and what an inspector actually looks at.
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Where cultivation ends and manufacturing begins
The activity split an extraction lab actually has to walk — farm practice on one side, EU-GMP manufacturing on the other, and the production rooms in between.
What the standard reaches in an extraction room
The same room, solvent and skid sit under different obligations depending on what the extract becomes — and that is the first question, not a later detail.
The standard that draws it, in plant language
What the European herbal-medicines annex expects of premises, equipment, and documentation once you are manufacturing.
When the fraction is an API
How the active-substance guide maps onto cannabis-derived ingredients, next to EU GMP Part II.