Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Agriculture and Food
Title R68 - Plant Industry
Rule R68-37 - Industrial Hemp Cannabinoid Product Testing
Section R68-37-2 - Definitions

Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 68-37-2

Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024

1) "Adulterant" means any poisonous or deleterious substance in a quantity that may be injurious to health, including:

a) pesticides;

b) heavy metals;

c) solvents;

d) microbial life;

e) mycotoxins; or

f) foreign matter.

2) "Analyte" means a substance or chemical component that is undergoing analysis.

3) "Batch or lot" means a quantity of:

a) cannabinoid concentrate produced on a particular date and time, following clean up until the next clean up during which the same lots of industrial hemp are used; or

b) cannabinoid product produced on a particular date and time, following clean up until the next clean up during which industrial hemp concentrate is used.

4) "Cannabinoid" means any:

a) naturally occurring derivative of cannabigerolic acid (CAS 25555-57-1) ; or

b) any chemical compound that is both structurally and chemically similar to a derivative of cannabigerolic acid.

5) "Cannabinoid concentrate" means:

a) the product of any chemical or physical process applied to naturally occurring biomass that concentrates or isolates the cannabinoids contained in the biomass; and

b) any amount of a natural, derivative, or synthetic cannabinoid in the synthetic cannabinoid's purified state.

6) "Cannabinoid product" means the same as the term is defined in Subsection 4-41-102(1).

7) "Cannabinoid product THC level" means a combined concentration of total THC and any THC analog of less than 0.3% on a dry weight basis if laboratory testing confirms a result within a measurement of uncertainty that includes the combined concentration of 0.3%.

8) "CBD" means cannabidiol (CAS 13956-29-1).

9) "CBDA" means cannabidiolic acid, (CAS 1244-58-2).

10) "Certificate of analysis" (COA) means a document produced by a testing laboratory listing the results for which that testing was performed.

11) "Department" means the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

12) "Final product" means a reasonably homogenous cannabinoid product in its final packaged form created using the same standard operating procedures and the same formulation.

13) "Foreign matter" means:

a) any matter that is present in a cannabis lot that is not a part of the cannabis plant; or

b) any matter that is present in a cannabis or cannabinoid product that is not listed as an ingredient.

14) "Industrial hemp" means a cannabis plant that contains less than 0.3% total THC by dry weight.

15) "Industrial hemp manufacturer" means an entity that holds, stores, packages, or labels an industrial hemp cannabinoid product.

16) "Pest" means:

a) any insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed; or

b) any other form of terrestrial or aquatic plant or animal life, virus, bacteria, or other microorganisms that are injurious to health or to the environment or that the department declares to be a pest.

17) "Pesticide" means any:

a) substance or mixture of substances, including a living organism, that is intended to prevent, destroy, control, repel, attract, or mitigate any insect, rodent, nematode, snail, slug, fungus, weed, or other forms of plant or animal life that are normally considered to be a pest or that the commissioner declares to be a pest;

b) any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant; and

c) any spray adjuvant, such as a wetting agent, spreading agent, deposit builder, adhesive, or emulsifying agent with deflocculating properties of its own used with a pesticide to aid in the application or effect of a pesticide.

18) "THC" means total composite tetrahydrocannabinol, including delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, tetrahydrocannabinolic acid, and any THC analogs as defined in Subsection 58-37-4(2)(a)(ii)(AA).

19) "THCA" means delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (CAS 23978-85-0).

20) "Total CBD" means the sum of the determined amounts of CBD and CBDA, according to the formula: Total CBD = CBD + (CBDA x 0.877).

21) "Total THC" means the sum of the determined amounts of THC and THCA, according to the formula: Total THC = THC + (THCA x 0.877).

22) "Unit" means each individual portion of an individually packaged product.

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