Standards for testing microbiological contaminants
Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 98, sec. 4
- (a) Usable marijuana required to be tested for microbiological contaminants must be sampled using appropriate aseptic techniques and tested by a laboratory for total coliform count.
- (b) If a laboratory detects the presence of any coliforms, the sample must be assessed for Escherichia coli (E. coli).
(c) A batch fails microbiological contaminant testing if the laboratory detects the presence of E. coli at more than one hundred colony forming units per gram (100 CFU/g) in a sample:
- (1) During an initial test where no reanalysis is requested; or
- (2) Upon reanalysis as described in 20 CAR § 202-117(a).