Mich. Admin. Code R. 420.301 - Definitions
Rule 1.
(1) As used
in these rules:
(a) "Action limit" means the
maximum permissible level of a contaminant in marihuana product allowable by
the agency.
(b) "Acts" refers to
the medical marihuana facilities licensing act, 2016 PA 281, MCL 333.27101 to
333.27801, and the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, 2018 IL
1, MCL 333.27951 to 333.27967, when applicable.
(c) "Agency" means the marijuana regulatory
agency.
(d) "Batch" means all
marihuana product of the same variety that has been processed together and
exposed to substantially similar conditions throughout processing.
(e) "Cultivator" refers to a grower under the
medical marihuana facilities licensing act or a marihuana grower under the
Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, or both.
(f) "Employee" means, except as otherwise
provided in these rules, a person performing work or service for compensation.
"Employee" does not include an individual providing trade or professional
services who is not normally engaged in the operation of a marihuana
establishment.
(g) "Final form"
means the form a marihuana product is in when it is available for sale by a
marihuana sales location not including consumer packaging. For marihuana
products intended for inhalation, "final form" means the marihuana concentrate
in an e-cigarette or a vaping device.
(h) "Good agricultural collection practices"
or "GACP-GMP" means the World Health Organization's or the American Herbal
Products Association's guidelines regarding the safety, efficacy,
and sustainability of medicinal plant material being used in herbal
medicines.
(i) "Good manufacturing
practices" or "GMP" means the Food and Drug Administration's formal regulations
regarding the design, monitoring, control, and maintenance of manufacturing
processes and facilities. They are designed to ensure that products
manufactured are to specific requirements including identity, strength,
quality, and purity.
(j) "Harvest
batch" means a designated quantity of harvested marihuana, all of which is
identical in strain and has been grown and harvested together and exposed to
substantially similar conditions throughout cultivation.
(k) "Immature plant" means a nonflowering
marihuana plant that is no taller than 8 inches from the growing or cultivating
medium and no wider than 8 inches produced from a cutting, clipping, tissue
culture, or seedling that is in a growing or cultivating medium or in a growing
or cultivating container.
(l)
"Inactive ingredients" means binding materials, dyes, preservatives, flavoring
agents, and any other ingredient that is not derived from the plant
Cannabis sativa L .
(m) "Laboratory" refers to both a safety
compliance facility under the medical marihuana facilities licensing act and a
marihuana safety compliance facility under the Michigan Regulation and Taxation
of Marihuana Act.
(n) "Limit of
quantitation" or "LOQ" means the minimum concentration or mass of an analyte in
a given matrix that can be reported as a quantitative result.
(o) "Marihuana business" refers to a
marihuana facility under the medical marihuana facilities licensing act or a
marihuana establishment under the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana
Act, or both.
(p) "Marihuana
establishment" means a a marihuana grower, marihuana safety compliance
facility, marihuana processor, marihuana microbusiness, marihuana retailer,
marihuana secure transporter, marihuana designated consumption establishment,
or any other type of marihuana-related business licensed by the agency under
the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act.
(q) "Marihuana facility" means a location at
which a licensee is licensed to operate under the medical marihuana facilities
licensing act.
(r) "Marihuana
product" means marihuana or a marihuana-infused product, or both, as those
terms are defined in the act unless otherwise provided for in these
rules.
(s) "Marihuana sales
location" refers to a provisioning center under the medical marihuana
facilities licensing act or a marihuana retailer under the Michigan Regulation
and Taxation of Marihuana Act, or both.
(t) "Marihuana tracking act" means the
marihuana tracking act, 2016 PA 282, MCL 333.27901 to 333.27904.
(u) "Medical marihuana facilities licensing
act" or "MMFLA" means the medical marihuana facilities licensing act, 2016 PA
281, MCL 333.27101 to 333.27801.
(v) "Michigan Regulation and Taxation of
Marihuana Act" or "MRTMA" means the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of
Marihuana Act, 2018 IL 1, MCL 333.27951 to 333.27967.
(w) "Package tag" means an RFID tag supplied
through the statewide monitoring system for the purpose of identifying a
package containing a marihuana product.
(x) "Plant tag" means an RFID tag supplied
through the statewide monitoring system for the purpose of identifying an
individual marihuana plant.
(y)
"Pre-test" means to perform full compliance testing on samples, without
reporting the results to the agency, and reporting results of subsequent
testing to the agency.
(z)
"Proficiency test" means a test that determines the performance of individual
laboratories for specific tests or measurements and is used to monitor
laboratories' performance.
(aa)
"Producer" refers to both a processor under the medical marihuana facilities
licensing act and a marihuana processor under the Michigan Regulation and
Taxation of Marihuana Act.
(bb)
"Production batch" means a designated quantity of marihuana product, all of
which was processed together, is homogeneous, identical in color, flavor, and
other characteristics, and was processed under similar conditions throughout
processing.
(cc) "These rules"
means the administrative rules promulgated by the agency under the authority of
the medical marihuana facilities licensing act, the marihuana tracking act, the
Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, and Executive Reorganization
Order No. 2019-2, MCL 333.27001.
(dd) "Tag" or "RFID tag" means the unique
identification number or Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) issued to a
licensee by the statewide monitoring system for tracking, identifying, and
verifying marihuana plants, marihuana products, and packages of marihuana
product in the statewide monitoring system.
(ee) "Target analyte" means a non-marihuana
inactive ingredient designated for analysis.
(2) Terms defined in the acts have the same
meanings when used in these rules unless otherwise indicated.
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