Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › 408 - Palliative Use of Marijuana › Section 21a-408-59 - Laboratory requirements

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) No laboratory
			 shall handle, test or analyze marijuana unless such laboratory:
(1) Is registered with the department as a
			 controlled substance laboratory;
(2) Is independent from all other persons
			 involved in the marijuana industry in Connecticut, which shall mean that no
			 person with a direct or indirect interest in the laboratory shall have a direct
			 or indirect financial interest in a dispensary, dispensary facility, producer,
			 production facility, certifying physician, certifying APRN, or any other entity
			 that may benefit from the production, manufacture, dispensing, sale, purchase
			 or use of marijuana; and
(3) Has
			 employed at least one person to oversee and be responsible for the laboratory
			 testing who has earned, from a college or university accredited by a national
			 or regional certifying authority, at least a master's level degree in chemical
			 or biological sciences and has a minimum of two years of post-degree laboratory
			 experience, or earned a bachelor's degree in biological sciences and has a
			 minimum of four years of post-degree laboratory experience.
(4) Has provided proof to the department of
			 accreditation in testing and calibration in accordance with the most current
			 version of the International Standard for Organization and the International
			 Electrotechnical Commission ("ISO/IEC") 17025 or proof that the laboratory has
			 applied for accreditation in testing and calibration in the most current
			 version of ISO/IEC 17025. Any testing and calibration method utilized to
			 perform a medical marijuana analysis shall be in accordance with the
			 laboratory's ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation. The accrediting body shall be
			 recognized by International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation.
(A) A laboratory applying for authorization
			 to provide medical marijuana analytical tests shall receive ISO/IEC 17025
			 accreditation within eighteen months from the date the laboratory applied for
			 ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation. A laboratory may request, and the commissioner may
			 grant for good cause shown, additional time for the laboratory to receive
			 ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation.
(B) A
			 laboratory shall send proof of ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation to the department
			 for all medical marijuana related analytical test methods for which it has
			 received ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation no later than five business days after the
			 date in which the accreditation as received.
(C) A laboratory may use non-accredited
			 analytical test methods so long as the laboratory has commenced an application
			 for ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for analytical test methods for medical
			 marijuana analysis. No laboratory shall use non-accredited analytical test
			 methods for medical marijuana analysis if it has applied for and has not
			 received ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation within eighteen months. The laboratory may
			 request and the commissioner may grant for good cause shown additional time for
			 the laboratory to utilize non-accredited analytical test methods for medical
			 marijuana analysis.
(D) At such
			 time that a laboratory loses its ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for any medical
			 marijuana related analytical test methods, it shall inform the department
			 within twenty-four hours. The laboratory shall immediately stop handling,
			 testing or analyzing marijuana.