Missouri: from grow to dispensary, what ends up on the label

Step by step: Missouri

1. Step 1: Cultivation / harvest lot (Cultivation facility) A licensed cultivation facility records every plant in Metrc, finishes processing the harvest lot, and orders the tests itself. It may order only one mandatory test per lot without written approval from the Division of Cannabis Regulation. This becomes the label's originating license.
2. Step 2: The lab collects, hands off (Testing licensee) The testing licensee collects the sample in a designated sample area; the grower must make the whole lot available and may not assist, while one of its employees watches. Flower is sampled from at most 15 pounds at a time, at least 0.5% of the lot, at random, never the best-looking buds.
3. Step 3: Testing to the rule (Testing licensee) An ISO/IEC 17025-accredited lab measures eight cannabinoids, which must agree within 15% across at least three samples, plus mycotoxins, pathogenic E. coli, Salmonella, four Aspergillus species, pesticides, heavy metals, water activity, moisture and foreign matter. Terpenes are optional.
4. Step 4: Results to the state first (Testing licensee) Within 10 days of sampling, and 24 hours of finishing, the lab files pass or fail results, the certificate of analysis and a photo of the sample in Metrc, no later than it tells the grower. Once a lot passes, every licensee that receives it gets a copy of the COA.
5. Step 5: Pass / fail (DCR) A failed lot goes on administrative hold. Within 15 days the licensee chooses reanalysis, remediation or destruction, and must finish within three months; after a passing reanalysis, a different lab may resample the lot and test it. Heavy-metal failures can never be remediated.
6. Step 6: Package + label (Cultivation facility) The cultivation facility packs it resealable, opaque and child-resistant (at most 3 ounces) in a design the DCR approved in advance, with a label in a fixed order: ingredients, servings, best-if-used-by date, license, testing lab, Metrc tag, weight, eight cannabinoids in milligrams, terpenes if tested, use instructions, approval number and the warning.
7. Step 7: "Marijuana" + the THC diamond (DCR) The word Marijuana must be printed at least as large as any other word, beside the red and white diamond with "THC" over an "M" (infused products add the milligrams of THC under it). If terpenes were tested, every detected terpene must be listed.
8. Step 8: Dispensary check + sale (Dispensary) Before selling, the dispensary must confirm in Metrc that the lot passed testing and is not on hold, recalled or ordered destroyed. A consumer may buy at most 3 ounces of flower per transaction, and every exit carries a no-driving warning sign.