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OMA opens state QA lab and creates patient services unit to bolster testing and outreach
Summary
OMA said construction of its quality assurance laboratory is complete, key instruments are arriving, ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation is underway, and the agency is forming a patient services department to support clinicians and patients.
The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority told its Executive Advisory Council that construction of the agency’s quality assurance (QA) laboratory is complete, major analytical instruments have begun arriving and the agency has started the accreditation process aimed at ISO/IEC 17025 standards.
Lee Rhodes, chief science officer at OMA, described the lab and its objectives as an additional line of defense for public safety, not a replacement for private commercial laboratories. “We're going to do what I've called parallel testing,” Rhodes said, describing plans to collect reserve samples and run identical tests to compare OMA results to commercial lab outputs.
Why it matters: OMA said the QA lab will help identify product recalls, reduce inter-lab variability, support law enforcement testing of hemp-derived products, and promote best practices across…
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