Nev. Admin. Code § 453A.606

Current through December 12, 2024

Section 453A.606 - Physical facilities: Generally

1. Each medical marijuana establishment shall ensure that any building used to manufacture, process, package, support or hold marijuana or marijuana products:

(a) Is of suitable size, construction and location to facilitate cleaning, maintenance and proper operations;

(b) Has adequate space for the orderly placement of equipment and materials to prevent miscalculation or misuse of any component in any step of the manufacture, control, packaging, labeling or distribution of marijuana or marijuana products between different components, product containers, closures, labels, in-process materials and marijuana or marijuana products and to prevent contamination; and

(c) Contains interior surfaces which are not constructed of bare, painted or coated wood or wood product unless:

(1) The bare, painted or coated wood is within a building used only as a medical marijuana dispensary and all marijuana or marijuana products are packaged or protected at all times; or

(2) The wood is sealed and coated with an epoxy paint which renders the surface:

(I) Safe;

(II) Durable, corrosion-resistant, nonporous and nonabsorbent;

(III) Finished to have a smooth, easily cleanable surface; and

(IV) Resistant to pitting, chipping, crazing, scratching, scoring, distortion and decomposition.

2. Each medical marijuana establishment shall ensure that:

(a) The flow of components, product containers, closures, labels, in-process materials and marijuana and marijuana products through any building used to manufacture, process, package or hold marijuana or marijuana products is designed to prevent contamination;

(b) The operations of the medical marijuana establishment are performed within specifically defined areas of adequate size; and

(c) There are separate or defined areas or such other control systems for the operations of the medical marijuana establishment as are necessary to prevent contamination or miscalculation or misuse of any component in any step of the manufacture, control, packaging, labeling or distribution of marijuana or marijuana products during the course of the following procedures:

(1) Receipt, identification, storage and withholding from use of components, product containers, closures and labels, pending the appropriate sampling, testing or examination by the quality control unit before release for manufacturing, processing or packaging;

(2) Holding rejected components, product containers, closures and labels before disposition;

(3) Storage of released components, product containers, closures and labels;

(4) Storage of in-process materials;

(5) Processing operations;

(6) Packaging and labeling operations;

(7) Quarantine storage before the release of marijuana or marijuana products;

(8) Storage of marijuana or marijuana products after release;

(9) Control and laboratory operations; and

(10) Sanitary processing, which includes as appropriate:

(I) Floors, walls and ceilings made of smooth, hard surfaces that are easily cleanable;

(II) Temperature and humidity controls;

(III) An air supply filtered through high-efficiency particulate air filters under positive pressure;

(IV) A system for monitoring environmental conditions;

(V) A system for cleaning and sanitizing rooms and equipment; and

(VI) A system for maintaining any equipment used to control sanitary conditions.

Nev. Admin. Code § 453A.606

Added to NAC by Div. of Pub. & Behavioral Health by R004-14, 3-28-2014, eff. 4-1-2014; A by R148-15A, eff. 9/9/2016

NRS 453A.370