§ 20-2A-60 — Third-Party Inventory Control and Tracking System

Alabama § 20-2A-60

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 20: Food, Drugs and Cosmetics
• Ch. 2A: Darren Wesley “Ato” Hall Compassion Act
• Art. 4: Cultivation, Processing, and Dispensing of Medical Cannabis

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(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a licensee shall adopt and use a third-party inventory control and tracking system that is capable of interfacing with the statewide seed-to-sale tracking system to allow the licensee to enter or access information in the statewide seed-to-sale tracking system as required under this article and rules. The third-party inventory control and tracking system must have all of the following capabilities necessary for the licensee to comply with the requirements applicable to the licensee’s license type:
(1) Tracking all cannabis plants, medical cannabis products, patient and caregiver purchase totals, waste, transfers, conversions, sales, and returns that are linked to unique identification numbers.
(2) Tracking lot and batch information throughout the entire chain of custody.
(3) Tracking all products, conversions, and derivatives throughout the entire chain of custody.
(4) Tracking cannabis plant, batch, and product destruction.
(5) Tracking transportation of product.
(6) Performing complete batch recall tracking that clearly identifies all of the following details relating to the specific batch subject to the recall:
a. Sold product.
b. Product inventory that is finished and available for sale.
c. Product that is in the process of transfer.
d. Product being processed into another form.
e. Postharvest raw product, such as product that is in the drying, trimming, or curing process.
(7) Reporting and tracking loss, theft, or diversion of product containing cannabis.
(8) Reporting and tracking all inventory discrepancies.
(9) Reporting and tracking adverse patient responses or dose-related efficacy issues.
(10) Reporting and tracking all sales and refunds.
(11) Receiving testing results electronically from a state testing laboratory via a secured application program interface into the system and directly linking the testing results to each applicable source batch and sample.
(12) Identifying test results that may have been altered.
(13) Providing the licensee with access to information in the tracking system that is necessary to verify that the licensee is carrying out all transactions authorized under the licensee’s license in accordance with this article.
(14) Providing information to cross-check that product sales are made to a registered qualified patient, or a registered caregiver on behalf of a registered qualified patient, and that the product received the required testing.
(15) Providing the commission and state agencies with access to information in the database that they are authorized to access.
(16) Providing licensees with access only to the information in the system that they are required to receive before a sale, transfer, transport, or other activity authorized under a license issued under this article.
(17) Securing the confidentiality of information in the database by preventing access by a person who is not authorized to access the statewide seed-to-sale tracking system or is not authorized to access the particular information.
(18) Providing analytics to the commission regarding key performance indicators such as the following:
a. Total daily sales.
b. Total cannabis plants in production.
c. Total cannabis plants destroyed.
d. Total inventory adjustments.
(b) If the statewide seed-to-sale tracking system is capable of allowing a licensee to access or enter information into the statewide seed-to-sale tracking system without use of a third-party inventory control and tracking system, a licensee may access or enter information into the statewide seed-to-sale tracking system directly and the licensee is not required to adopt and use a third-party inventory control and tracking system.

Legislative History

(Act 2021-450, §1.)