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§1046.4. Testing; sample collection; minimum standards; reporting; remediation
A.
(1)Each licensee authorized to cultivate, extract, process, produce, and transport
therapeutic marijuana pursuant to this Part shall comply with approved minimum standards
by making each batch of therapeutic marijuana subject to random selection, sampling, and
analysis conducted by an independent approved laboratory collector in a volume sufficient
to ensure compliance.
(2)Each therapeutic marijuana laboratory licensed according to this Part shall
maintain test results for no less than three years.
(3)The laboratory shall record test results in the Louisiana Medical Marijuana
Tracking System and produce a certificate of analysis to be delivered to the Louisiana
Department of Health and licensee permitted to
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§1046.4. Testing; sample collection; minimum standards; reporting; remediation
A.(1) Each licensee authorized to cultivate, extract, process, produce, and transport
therapeutic marijuana pursuant to this Part shall comply with approved minimum standards
by making each batch of therapeutic marijuana subject to random selection, sampling, and
analysis conducted by an independent approved laboratory collector in a volume sufficient
to ensure compliance.
(2) Each therapeutic marijuana laboratory licensed according to this Part shall
maintain test results for no less than three years.
(3) The laboratory shall record test results in the Louisiana Medical Marijuana
Tracking System and produce a certificate of analysis to be delivered to the Louisiana
Department of Health and licensee permitted to cultivate, extract, process, produce, and
transport therapeutic marijuana within twenty-four hours of test completion.
B. Each batch of medical marijuana finished product shall pass all applicable testing
standards, including appropriate microbial and fungal limits, acceptable standards for
pesticide chemical residues, appropriate residual solvent and heavy metals limits,
homogeneity for concentrates and extracts, and complete active ingredient analysis or
potency analysis prior to transportation to a medical marijuana retail permit holder. The
administrative rules of the Louisiana Department of Health shall allow for a variance of no
greater than plus fifteen percent or minus fifteen percent from the labeled amount of active
ingredients in the ingredient analysis or potency analysis.
C.(1) Neither a licensee nor an approved laboratory authorized pursuant to this Part
shall release or approve a therapeutic marijuana product for delivery or sale until a sample
from the applicable product batch has complied with all required testing standards.
(2) A licensee may resubmit to an approved laboratory any sample that fails one or
more initial tests required by this Part. The sample may be released for delivery and sale
only if it passes all tests conducted by an approved laboratory in duplicate. The sample may
be remediated according to any reasonably acceptable industry methods if it fails one or more
tests conducted by an approved laboratory.
(3) Any remediated sample shall pass remediation testing in duplicate prior to
approval for delivery and sale.
(4) A product may be remediated only once, and any product failing remediation
testing shall be destroyed within sixty days of the failed test, in addition to the timely
destruction of the entire batch from which the sample was collected.