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recent california business licensing news and updates This site focuses or refers to information and services regarding medicinal and adult use cannabis goods transported together alcoholic beverages 2024 resolutions transportation and security A-license MCSB A-license and an M-license unique ID/batch number Distributor transport The Manufactured Cannabis Safety Branch (MCSB) 2024 problems managing member Cannabinoids Testing licensing and regulating commercial cannabis manufacturers health claims CDTFA seller’s permit requiring refrigeration Bond in the amount of $5,000 edible products Ethanol tinctures Edibles– Products Category II Residual Pesticides Testing Local Jurisdictions some nutritional facts 120 days inventory BUREAU OF CANNABIS CONTROL Manufactured Cannabis Safety Branch (MCSB) finished product Cultivation less than 10,000 Physical address good manufacturing practices local jurisdiction’s ordinances and regulations emergency regulations Transition Period Proposition 64: 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permit number Live Scans for each owner aggregate interest of 20% or more Extractions using CO2 Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970 (PPPA) persons 21 years of age or older distributors Water Activity Testing of Solid or Semi-Solid Edibles medicinal commercial cannabis activity paper inserted into the packaging manufacturing (Level 1 manufacturing, Type 6) Non-Storefront Retailer (Type 9) Type S share facility space disposal hang tag or a peel-back label license review process commercial cannabis activity Owner Department of Public Health’s Manufactured Cannabis Safety Branch Industrial Hemp Advisory Board conditional license Completed Temporary License Application Form M-licensees Percentage of ownership Microbial Impurities Testing (A. fumigatus, A. flavus, A. niger, A. terreus) re-sealable quality control M-license extraction Foreign Material Testing 2,000 mg of THC per package for the medicinal-use market Financial Interest convicted of a substantially related crime entry into 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Water/Food-grade Dry Ice Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) contaminants Moisture Content Testing cultivation (on an area less than 10,000 square feet) public health and safety infusion 2024 compliance conducting quality assurance review sales of cannabis goods The California Department of Public Health's The Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC) primary panel requirements CO2 and ethanol extractions storage of cannabis goods Premises diagram amount of sodium Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act 2024 issues amount of THC/CBD per serving and per package manufacture cannabis products designated structure separate applications A-license and an M-license for the same commercial cannabis activity public Licensee Lookup Tool MCSB’s temporary license application at least 20% ownership interest transport cannabis goods to retailer minimum standards for extraction processes tamper-evident LICENSE APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS cannabis event 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