Utah: from farm to pharmacy, what the label has to show

Step by step: Utah

1. Step 1: Cultivator holds the lot (Cultivation facility) A licensed cultivation facility harvests a lot that is tracked in Utah’s inventory control system, the source of the label’s unique identification number. Utah’s testing rule lets the plant product be tested either before or after it moves to a processing facility. For sampling, the whole lot must sit in one place, kept apart from every other lot.
2. Step 2: An unaffiliated technician samples (Sampling technician) A sampling technician, who may be a department employee, an employee of a lab the department licenses to sample or someone the department authorizes, collects the sample and must be unaffiliated with the business asking for the test unless the department grants an exception. The owner and staff may not help pick the sample. A plant lot of 5 kg or less yields ten 1-gram increments, following the lab’s written ISO 17025 procedure.
3. Step 3: The state’s lab, or a licensed one (Testing laboratory) Nothing reaches a pharmacy until an independent lab has tested a representative sample. Utah law lets the Department of Agriculture and Food run its own medical cannabis lab beside the labs it licenses, and in December 2025 the state listed one licensed testing lab. Flower is tested for water activity, cannabinoids, terpenes and adulterants: foreign matter, microbes, pesticides and heavy metals.
4. Step 4: Certificate of analysis (Testing laboratory) The lab’s certificate of analysis lists the quantity of each analyte it tested, and certificates are uploaded to the inventory control system or emailed to the client. Flower fails if its water activity is above 0.65. Mycotoxin testing is required for concentrates, and the department may order it for flower when it suspects mold toxins.
5. Step 5: Fail: remediate first, then resample (UDAF) A lot that fails may not be resampled or retested until it has been remediated. The facility files a remediation plan within 15 days of the failed result. A microbial failure can be treated by irradiation once the department approves the plan, and the product must be ready for resampling within 60 days of that approval. A lot that is not remediated in time is destroyed.
6. Step 6: Processor’s label (Processor) The label must plainly say the product contains cannabis and show the total composite THC and CBD, plus any other cannabinoid over 1% of total cannabinoids, the unique identification number, active ingredients and possible allergens, and the extraction process for extracted products. It carries the Department-supplied THC warning symbol and, for containers labeled from 1 January 2026, a new pregnancy warning, in a child-resistant container.
7. Step 7: Pharmacy label (Medical cannabis pharmacy) A medical cannabis pharmacy adds its own label: its name, address and phone number, the sale date, the patient’s name, the recommending medical provider, directions and cautions, the amount and cannabinoid content and a suggested use date. Unprocessed flower also gets a legal use termination date. Items already on the processor’s label need not be repeated, and a small container may use a supplemental label.
8. Step 8: One department from 2027 (UDAF) Utah has split the program: the Department of Agriculture and Food regulates growers, processors and testing, while the Department of Health and Human Services ran the patient side. Under H.B. 389, in force from 6 May 2026, the health department’s medical cannabis duties move to Agriculture and Food by 1 January 2027.