Section 3 AAC 306.625 - Proficiency testing program(a) When an accredited proficiency testing program becomes available in the state, the board may require an applicant for a marijuana testing facility license to participate successfully in a proficiency testing program not earlier than 12 months before receiving a license. The proficiency testing program must require an applicant for a marijuana testing facility license or a participating licensed marijuana testing facility to analyze test samples using the same procedures with the same number of replicate analyses, standards, testing analysts, and equipment that will be used for product testing. Successful participation is the positive identification of 80 percent of the target analytes that the marijuana testing facility reports, and must include quantitative results when applicable. Any false positive results reported constitute an unsatisfactory score for the proficiency test.(b) Before renewing the license of a marijuana testing facility, the board may require the facility to participate in a proficiency testing program with documentation of continued performance satisfactory to the board. The license of a marijuana testing facility may be limited, suspended, or revoked if the facility fails to participate and receive a passing score in a proficiency testing program.(c) The scientific director employed under 3 AAC 306.630 and each testing analyst of an applicant for a marijuana testing facility license and a licensed marijuana testing facility that participated in a proficiency test shall sign a corresponding attestation statement. The scientific director shall review and evaluate each proficiency test result.(d) An applicant for a marijuana testing facility license, and a licensed marijuana testing facility participating in the proficiency testing program, shall take and document remedial action when the applicant or the facility meets the standards of (a) of this section, but scores less than 100 percent in a proficiency test. To take and document remedial action, the marijuana testing facility's scientific director shall, at a minimum, review all samples tested and results reported after the date of the marijuana testing facility's last successful proficiency test.Eff. 2/21/2016, Register 217, April 2016Authority:AS 17.38.010
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