Bill > AB1965

This bill aims to enhance quality assurance and transparency in cannabis testing by requiring retailers to provide certificates of analysis (COAs), which are documents detailing the results of laboratory tests, to customers upon request and allowing the Department of Cannabis Control (the state agency that regulates cannabis) to conduct "off-the-shelf" testing of products sold at retail. It also mandates that licensed testing laboratories undergo performance testing to ensure consistency in their results across different labs, and revises the conditions under which a testing laboratory can retest a sample, allowing for retesting if the test was compromised due to equipment malfunction or staff error, or if the department requires or authorizes it. Furthermore, the bill clarifies that licensed testing laboratories must cooperate with the department's requests to evaluate their testing practices, even when testing samples for law enforcement or regulatory agencies.

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