How bio365 Keeps Its Growing Media Clean Through Distribution and Retail

Today, bio365 is the only 100% clean living growing media. It’s also the only growing media company that has written agreements with its distributors requiring indoor storage.

Let’s take a closer look at how bio365 tries to keep its growing media clean on its way to growers and what that means to you.

Clean Inputs and Manufacturing

Clean growing media starts with clean inputs and clean manufacturing processes. All bio365 products are made entirely indoors in 100% controlled environments with stringent testing and quality control protocols.

Here are just some of the ways we ensure all bio365 media is free from pests, pathogens, and contaminants:

Input Testing

Every input is fully tested and anything that doesn’t meet our high quality standards is thrown out. No plant material is ever in our facility, nor do we allow previously used media into our facilities.

BIOCHARGE™

Our patented biological activation and aging process means that our nutrient inputs have been exposed to a significant thermal treatment during production of our BIOCHARGE. Then, prior to use, each batch of BIOCHARGE is tested using both emergence tests and Berlese funnels to confirm there are no flying or crawling insect pests present in the BIOCHARGE. This testing is done for every batch of soil we make.

Storage and Manufacturing

Everything that goes into making bio365 growing media is manufactured and stored indoors in pest- and disease-controlled spaces. Our production areas are regularly cleaned. Once packaged, our products continue to be stored indoors in a monitored space prior to shipping.

Worker and Visitor Hygiene

Access to our facility is tightly controlled. Strict hygiene policies and controlled movement paths are enforced at all of our production facilities. For example, all workers and visitors have to change their clothes and footwear and go through a comprehensive hygiene process before entering the production space. We do not touch our product during production.

Environmental Testing

We use elaborate environmental testing that is monitored in 20 different places for pests, pathogens, and contaminants. For example, all production areas are continuously monitored for flying insects using sticky traps, and we log all findings.

Bottom-line, when you use bio365 growing media, you can be 100% confident that it’s clean and pest and pathogen free during the manufacturing process.

Written Agreements with Distribution Partners and Policies to Retail Partners

Every distribution partner we work with signs a written agreement including verbiage that requires all bio365 growing media to be stored indoors at all times. We take these agreements very seriously and work with our distribution partners to ensure they meet their commitments.

While we don’t have written agreements with retailers that carry our products, we do provide our storage policies to them. These policies include instructions that explain our growing media should be stored indoors in a cool dry place day and night so evaporation and condensation can’t get into the wrapping.

Key Takeaways for Cultivators

No other manufacturer can match bio365’s 100% clean living growing media. From patented processes and controlled, clean manufacturing environments to agreements with distributors, we’re doing things that other growing media companies simply can’t (or won’t) do.

We believe trust in the supply chain is essential, especially in the cannabis industry where contamination can have serious implications, and we work hard to responsibly manage our products from production to the growers. Contact us if you’d like to learn more about our supply chain, production, and products.