Section 453A.618 - Equipment and utensils: Requirements for maintenance, cleaning, sanitizing and inspection for certain medical marijuana establishments1. Each cultivation facility, facility for the production of edible marijuana products or marijuana-infused products and medical marijuana dispensary shall ensure that any equipment used to manufacture, process, package or hold marijuana or marijuana products: (a) Is of appropriate design and adequate size and is suitably located to facilitate operations for its intended use and for its cleaning and maintenance; and(b) Is constructed so that surfaces which have direct contact with components, in-process materials, marijuana or marijuana products are not reactive, additive or absorptive so as to alter the safety, identity, strength, quality or purity of the marijuana or marijuana products beyond the official or other established requirements.2. Each cultivation facility, facility for the production of edible marijuana products or marijuana-infused products and medical marijuana dispensary shall ensure that: (a) Any substances required for its operation, such as lubricants or coolants, do not come into contact with components, product containers, in-process materials, marijuana or marijuana products so as to alter the safety, identity, strength, quality or purity of the marijuana or marijuana products beyond the official or other established requirements;(b) Equipment and utensils are cleaned, maintained and, as appropriate for the nature of the marijuana or marijuana products, sanitized and sterilized at appropriate intervals to prevent malfunctions or contamination that would alter the safety, identity, strength, quality or purity of the marijuana or marijuana products beyond the official or other established requirements; and(c) Written procedures are established and followed for the cleaning and maintenance of equipment and utensils used to manufacture, process, package or hold marijuana or marijuana products. These procedures must include, without limitation: (1) Assignment of responsibility for cleaning and maintaining equipment;(2) Maintenance and cleaning schedules, including, where appropriate, sanitizing schedules;(3) A description in sufficient detail of the methods, equipment and materials used in cleaning and maintenance operations and the methods of disassembling and reassembling equipment as necessary to assure proper cleaning and maintenance;(4) Protection of clean equipment from contamination before use; and(5) Inspection of equipment for cleanliness immediately before use.3. Each cultivation facility, facility for the production of edible marijuana products or marijuana-infused products and medical marijuana dispensary must maintain records of any maintenance, cleaning, sanitizing and inspection carried out pursuant to this section.Nev. Admin. Code § 453A.618
Added to NAC by Div. of Pub. & Behavioral Health by R004-14, 3-28-2014, eff. 4-1-2014