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Oklahoma industry urges OMA to change lab testing rules, citing inflated THC readings and narrow equipment mandates
Summary
Laboratory managers, growers and processors urged the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority to revise proposed testing rules — disputing THC retest thresholds, equipment mandates and 'one‑and‑done' retesting policies and asking for more flexible sampling and remediation paths.
Executive Director Adria Barry and staff opened a Feb. 16 public‑comment hearing and heard hours of objections to proposed testing provisions in Title 442, Chapter 10.
Laboratory owners and technicians said the proposed internal retest trigger and QA thresholds are too high and could hide widespread THC 'inflation' they say now distorts the market. "Currently it's stating that labs should internally retest samples at 30% THC, and that the QA lab should be testing at 32.5% THC," said Jeffrey Havard, lab manager and owner of Havard Industries, who proposed an alternate internal retest range of 22.5–25% and QA intervention at 25.1% to address what he called inflated labels.
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