Nevada Administrative Code › Chapter 453A - Medical Use of Marijuana › PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA › Requirements for Independent Testing Laboratories › Section 453A.660 - Proficiency testing program: Establishment by Division; participation

Current through June 11, 2024
1. The Department will establish a
				proficiency testing program for independent testing laboratories. A proficiency
				testing program must include, without limitation, providing rigorously
				controlled and standardized proficiency testing samples to independent testing
				laboratories for analysis, reporting the results of such analysis and
				performing a statistical evaluation of the collective demographics and results
				of all independent testing laboratories.
2. Each independent testing laboratory must
				participate in the proficiency testing program established pursuant to this
				section.
3. If required by the
				Department as part of being issued or renewing a medical marijuana
				establishment registration certificate, the independent testing laboratory must
				have successfully participated in the proficiency testing program within the
				preceding 12 months.
4. To maintain
				continued registration as an independent testing laboratory, a laboratory must
				participate in the designated proficiency testing program with continued
				satisfactory performance as determined by the Department.
5. An independent testing laboratory must
				analyze proficiency test samples using the same procedures with the same number
				of replicate analyses, standards, testing analysts and equipment as used for
				product testing.
6. The scientific
				director of the independent testing laboratory and all testing analysts that
				participated in a proficiency test must sign corresponding attestation
				statements.
7. The scientific
				director of the independent testing laboratory must review and evaluate all
				proficiency test results.
8.
				Successful participation includes the positive identification of 80 percent of
				the target analytes that the independent testing laboratory reports to include
				quantitative results when applicable. Any false positive results reported will
				be considered an unsatisfactory score for the proficiency test.
9. Unsuccessful participation in a
				proficiency test may result in limitation, suspension or revocation of the
				medical marijuana establishment registration certificate of the independent
				testing laboratory.
10. The
				Department will select a proficiency testing provider to conduct the
				proficiency testing program and determine the schedule that the proficiency
				testing provider will follow when sending proficiency testing samples to
				independent testing laboratories for analysis.
11. In addition to achieving the standard
				required pursuant to subsection 8, an independent testing laboratory
				successfully participates in the proficiency testing program only if the
				independent testing laboratory:
(a) Obtains
				single-blind proficiency testing samples from the proficiency testing
				provider;
(b) Analyzes the
				proficiency testing sample for all analytes listed in NAC
				453A.654 and sections 9, 10 and
				11 of this regulation;
(c) Reports
				the results of its analysis to the proficiency testing provider;
(d) Analyzes a proficiency testing sample
				pursuant to the proficiency testing program not less frequently than once each
				12 months;
(e) Pays the costs of
				subscribing to the proficiency testing program; and
(f) Authorizes the proficiency testing
				provider to submit to the Department the results of any test performed pursuant
				to this section.