From Product to Puff: Comprehensive Cannabis Volatile Analysis

Join Megan Harper-Kerr, Applications Scientist at GERSTEL, Inc., as she demonstrates how advanced thermal desorption GC-MS and Sensory Directed Analysis (SDA) can help overcome the challenges of characterizing complex cannabis volatile profiles.

Through two real-world studies, Megan will show how these approaches can be used to identify the compounds responsible for cannabis aroma beyond terpene profiling and compare the volatile emissions produced by cannabis smoking and vaping.

You will learn how to:

• Identify key aroma-active compounds using an SDA workflow, including dynamic headspace (DHS), GC-O/MS and Aroma Dilution Analysis (ADA)
• Characterize complex volatile profiles with thermal desorption GC-MS
• Apply these analytical approaches to cannabis aroma characterization and emissions analysis

Presenter: Megan Harper-Kerr (Application Scientist, GERSTEL Inc.)