Food safety a new frontier for legal pot

By Kristen Wyatt

Published June 20, 2014 7:23pm ET

Food safety a new frontier for legal pot — In this June 19, 2014 photo, chef Alex Tretter prepares a batter for peanut butter and jelly cups, with green cannabis-infused "canna butter" in a bowl at left, at Sweet Grass Kitchen, a well-established gourmet marijuana edibles bakery which sells its confections to retail outlets, in Denver. Sweet Grass Kitchen, like other cannabis food producers in the state, is held to rigorous health inspection standards, and has received praise from inspectors, according to owner Julie Berliner. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) | Brennan Linsley

DENVER (AP) — The marijuana in those pot brownies isn’t the only thing that can potentially make consumers sick. The industry and regulators are taking a closer look at how pot-infused edibles are actually made.

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