Minnesota: from cultivator to shelf, what ends up on the label

Step by step: Minnesota

1. Step 1: Cultivator / harvest batch (Cultivator) An OCM-licensed cultivator, microbusiness or mezzobusiness harvests a batch and records it in Metrc, Minnesota's statewide monitoring system. This is where the label's cultivator name and license number, batch number, strain and net weight come from.
2. Step 2: The business samples, on camera (Cultivator) Minnesota puts sampling on the license holder. It selects representative samples using criteria such as random sampling, with sterile tools, in view of its mandatory recording devices, then seals each container so tampering shows and labels it with the product, batch number, date and collector. It must protect the sample until the lab or a licensed transporter takes it, and tell the lab about every pesticide, fertilizer or solvent applied to the batch.
3. Step 3: Lab analysis (Testing facility) An OCM-licensed testing facility accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 grinds the sample into a homogeneous composite and tests potency, homogeneity (every serving should match) and stability, plus foreign material, heavy metals, microbes, mycotoxins, pesticide residue and residual solvents. Contaminants and potency may be tested before packaging; stability and homogeneity after. OCM publishes the limits in an annual testing-thresholds report, due each 1 July.
4. Step 4: COA + certification (Testing facility) The lab records its data package in Metrc and issues a certificate of analysis naming itself and the submitter with license numbers, the batch, each result with its reporting limit, the measurement uncertainty, and a pass or fail against OCM's acceptance criteria. A pass is the certification that lets the batch be sold.
5. Step 5: OCM oversight (OCM) The Office of Cannabis Management must be told about every test result, failing or not, and can order immediate testing of any product. A failed batch is destroyed or remediated, but only under a written remediation plan OCM approves first, and never by blending it into a bigger batch.
6. Step 6: Package + label (Packager) The flower goes into child-resistant, tamper-evident, opaque packaging. The outer marketing layer carries the cultivator and license, net weight, batch number, cannabinoid profile, strain, a use-by date, a line confirming the testing, the yellow IICPS triangle with THC underneath, the 21+ NOT FOR CHILDREN symbol with the Poison Control number, and the state warning.
7. Step 7: Retail sale (Retailer) A licensed retailer sells to adults 21+, at most 2 oz of flower per transaction, and must give out or post factual safety information. Edibles are capped at 10 mg THC per serving and 200 mg per package. The business that had the product tested must show the results to any member of the public on request, in plain language.