Commercially relevant natural products and strategies to ensure quality

Loyalist College 将利用 ARTP 资金来推进我们与天然产品和大麻领域中小型企业的合作。我们将与业界合作克服具体挑战，例如缺乏支持产品开发的研究和标准，特别是受管制和受控物质，以及使用天然产品和/或大麻时的化学挑战，以及未知的产品保质期和稳定性。 法律、政治和复杂的社会因素导致基础和应用研究有限，无法更好地了解这些领域工厂的复杂性，以及为商业市场开发产品的实际挑战。此外，在设计新产品时，有关成分相容性的可用数据有限，而且随着时间的推移，加工、包装和储存对活性成分的影响也存在不确定性。这是一个关键的信息差距，需要解决，加拿大人才能成为开发高质量产品的创新者，消费者才能了解产品的影响。 我们的计划是通过针对特定行业的应用研究项目来解决这一差距。我们将探索天然产品和大麻行业的成分兼容性、测试方法规范和控制、保质期以及产品和包装的稳定性。 为此，我们将创建一个研究计划，旨在帮助满足公司的研发 (R&D) 需求，这些公司除了面临其他挑战外，还可能缺乏财务资源或获得传统资金或资助计划的机会。项目成果将用于增进这些新兴行业的知识、支持产品开发和商业化、刺激经济并为产品指南和法规提供信息。我们将探索有助于为天然产品和大麻行业生产更高质量、更安全、更一致的产品和包装的方法和控制措施，以使加拿大消费者受益。此外，凭借可行且经过验证的产品和流程，公司将能够更好地筹集资金、吸引投资者并为后期开发寻求研发资金。

Loyalist College will use ARTP funding to advance our work with small and medium-sized enterprises in the natural products and cannabis sectors. We will work with industry to overcome specific challenges such as a lack of research and standards to support product development, particularly for regulated and controlled substances, and chemistry challenges when working with natural products and/or cannabis, and unknown shelf-life and stability of products. Legal, political and complex societal factors have contributed to the limited fundamental and applied research required to better understand the complexity of plants in these sectors, and the practical challenges of developing products for the commercial market. Further, limited data is available on the compatibility of ingredients when designing new products, coupled with the uncertainty of the effects of processing, packaging, and storage on the active ingredients over time. This is a critical information gap that needs to be addressed for Canadians to be innovators in developing high-quality products, and for consumers to understand product implications. Our plan is to tackle this gap through focused industry-specific applied research projects. We will explore ingredient compatibility, test method specifications and controls, shelf life, and stability of products and packaging for the natural products and cannabis sectors. To do this we will create a research program intended to help meet the research and development (R&D) needs of companies that, in addition to other challenges, may lack financial resources or access to traditional funding or funding programs. Project results will be used to advance knowledge for these emerging sectors, support product development and commercialization, stimulate the economy and inform product guidelines and regulations. We will explore methods and controls that help produce higher quality, safer, and more consistent products and packaging for the natural products and cannabis sectors, to benefit Canadian consumers. Additionally, with viable and validated products and processes, companies will be in a better position to raise capital, attract investors, and pursue R&D funding for later stage development.