Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 850 - MEDICAL CANNABIS DISPENSARIES
Subchapter 9 - LABORATORY CERTIFICATION, ANALYSIS, AND STANDARDS
Section 11-850-131 - Laboratory analysis required; batch size limits; representative samples; reserve samples
Current through February, 2024
(a) A dispensary licensee shall not dispense cannabis or manufactured cannabis products unless a laboratory certified by the department pursuant to this chapter has analyzed a representative sample of the cannabis or manufactured cannabis products and the samples meet the requirements set out in this subchapter.
(b) All samples submitted for laboratory analysis or held as reserve samples shall meet the requirements in subsection (f) for cannabis and subsection (g) for manufactured cannabis products.
(c) Collection of samples used to complete the analyses required by section 11-850-135 must take place after the batch of cannabis or manufactured cannabis product has completed all required production steps as outlined in the dispensary's standard operating procedures, except packaging and labeling, and is in its final form.
(d) A dispensary licensee shall maintain two reserve samples from each batch:
(e) A dispensary shall make reserve samples available for analysis or request laboratory analysis of reserve samples as directed by the department.
(f) Cannabis batch samples shall meet the following requirements:
Table 1
Cannabis batch size (pounds) |
Minimum number of increments per sample |
[LESS THAN EQUAL TO] 10.0 |
8 |
10.1 - 20.0 |
16 |
20.1 - 30.0 |
23 |
30.1 - 40.0 |
29 |
40.1 - 50.0 |
34 |
(g) Manufactured cannabis product batch samples shall meet the following requirements:
Table 2
Manufactured cannabis product batch size (units) |
Minimum number of increments (units) per sample |
[LESS THAN EQUAL TO] 50 |
2 |
51 - 150 |
3 |
151 - 500 |
5 |
501 - 1,200 |
8 |
1,201 - 3,200 |
13 |
3,201 - 10,000 |
20 |
10,001 - 35,000 |
32 |
35,001 - 150,000 |
50 |