Failed Mandatory Testing Forms

Introduction

When a licensee’s marijuana product fails mandatory testing, the licensee must notify the Division of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) within fifteen (15) days of the failure. Licensees must notify DCR with one of the following solutions:

  • Reanalyze the test sample.
  • Remediate with a DCR-approved process.
  • Request approval for another kind of remediation.
  • Destroy the failed product.

Licensee must complete their chosen solution within three (3) months of the test failure.1

Forms

Form Instructions

  • Once the licensee decides which solution is best for their failed product, the licensee must fill out and submit the corresponding form to DCR. 
  • Licensees must complete the entire form. Incomplete forms may not be accepted. 
  • Licensees must complete one form for each tag that failed mandatory testing.
  • For DCR notifications, licensees must not begin until DCR removes the product from administrative hold.
  • For DCR requests, licensees must not begin until DCR approves the licensee’s request in writing and removes the product from administrative hold.
  • Each form has additional instructions located on the form, including instructions for submission. 

For questions regarding failed mandatory testing, email CannabisCompliance@health.mo.gov.

119 CSR 100-1.110(10)(B): (10) Testing failures. (B) All product that fails mandatory testing must be reanalyzed, remediated, or destroyed within three (3) months of initial test failure. Product that fails mandatory testing may be reanalyzed, remediated, or destroyed as follows: 1. Before taking action with any product that fails mandatory testing, licensees must, within fifteen (15) days of test failure, notify the department of their intent to proceed in one of the following ways: A. Reanalysis of previously tested sample; B. Remediation of the harvest or process lot through remediation actions specifically allowed by rule; C. Destruction of the harvest or process lot; or D. Submission of a request to perform remediation not specifically allowed by rule. 2. After notifying the department, licensees may— A. Reanalyze the original sample collected for testing. (I) Reanalysis may be performed by the testing facility that performed the initial analysis or a testing facility that did not perform the initial analysis. (II) If the sample passes reanalysis, a testing facility that did not perform the initial analysis or reanalysis may sample the lot and perform testing on that new sample in compliance with all rules for mandatory testing; B. Complete marijuana product remediation through a remediation process specifically allowed by this rule. After a product has been remediated, the testing facility that performed the initial analysis or a testing facility that did not perform the initial analysis shall resample the lot and perform testing on that new sample in compliance with all rules for mandatory testing; C. Destroy the product; or D. Submit a request to remediate the product through a method not specifically approved by this rule. Such requests must be approved by the department, in writing, prior to the licensee taking any remediation actions.