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Certificates of Analysis: The Residual-Solvent Defect

The lab certificates behind Connecticut's residual-solvent enforcement action, published as the state's own public lookup serves them. Eight were filed by MCEJV, LLC (Affinity Grow) and are charged in Case 2025-978. Two were filed by other producers who are accused of nothing and are included because their certificates show a related defect.

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Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection
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What these are. Every cannabis product sold in Connecticut is registered with the Department of Consumer Protection, and the certificate of analysis filed to register it is published on the Department’s public eLicense lookup. Any consumer can pull up the certificate for the product in their hand. These are those files.

Why these ten. The Department’s Notice and Particulars in Case 2025-978 charges MCEJV, LLC, which does business as Affinity Grow, with selling 78 gummy products without the residual-solvent testing state rules require. Two defects appear across the certificates: most carry no residual-solvent panel at all, and a smaller number print a panel marked complete above a results table with nothing in it.

Eight of the ten here were filed by MCEJV and are among the charged registrations, chosen to span the 14 months of the charged window and both testing laboratories rather than to make the worst case.

Two producers who are not charged. Certificates filed for registrations MMBR.0028562 and MMBR.0028831 also print a residual-solvent panel marked complete above a results table with no values, and the Department approved both after the charged conduct. They differ from the charged pair in one respect that matters: these two record an analyst, an instrument and a date tested, and lack only the result rows, where the charged certificates record none of those things. The registry names the branding entities as Shangri-La CT Inc. and Advanced Grow Labs LLC. Both companies are accused of nothing, by anyone. A registry declaration that a solvent was used is a self-disclosure, not a legal determination that a finished-product panel was required for that product.

Provenance. Each file was downloaded directly from the state eLicense lookup on October 25, 2026. For the eight MCEJV certificates, the SHA-256 of the file published here matches the hash recorded when the certificate was first collected during the reporting. The full retrieval manifest — registration number, source URL, SHA-256 and retrieval date for every file — is published at /manifests/affinity-residual-solvent-coas.csv.

Metadata. Unlike the rest of this archive, these files are published byte for byte as the state serves them, with their metadata intact. A certificate of analysis is a consumer-facing record, and the software that produced it and the dates it carries are part of what the document is. Nothing was added, removed, or altered.

One certificate could not be retrieved. A fourth non-charged registration named in the reporting, MMBR.0028240, filed by Connecticut Contract Manufacturing LLC, is not included. Its certificate link on the state lookup no longer returns the document.

Reporting that cites these records The State Says Affinity Skipped a Safety Test on 78 Products. It Approved Every One.

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