Alabama cannabis testing requirements

Required tests

• Potency
• Terpenes
• Pesticides
• Residual solvents
• Heavy metals
• Microbials
• Mycotoxins
• Moisture
• Foreign matter

ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation

Required within a set period. The law requires ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation (Code of Ala. §20-2A-66(d)). Under Rule 538-X-10-.07, a new lab may start with an accreditation plan and is expected to accredit within 12 months. Its license is revoked or not renewed if it is not accredited within two years.

Notes

• Statute: Code of Ala. §20-2A-66 (testing protocols, ISO/IEC 17025) and §20-2A-64 (dispensaries may sell only tested, labelled products). Rules: Ala. Admin. Code ch. 538-X-10 (State Testing Laboratories), including Appendix A.
• Testing happens during cultivation, processing and dispensing. The law calls for less than 0.5% variability among batches of the same product.
• Appendix A panel for plant material: moisture (under 15%), potency, terpenes, foreign matter (none detected), mycotoxins (total aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 under 20 µg/kg; ochratoxin A under 20 µg/kg), heavy metals (arsenic under 2 ppm, cadmium 0.82 ppm, lead 1.2 ppm, mercury 0.4 ppm), pesticides, herbicides and growth regulators, and microbes.
• Microbes: total yeast and mold under 10,000 CFU/g (1,000 for extracts), limits for Enterobacteriaceae and total coliforms, and no Salmonella, pathogenic E. coli, or Aspergillus fumigatus, flavus, terreus or niger.
• Solvent-based extracts add residual solvents (under 500 ppm).
• Allowed forms: tablets, capsules, tinctures, gel cubes and lozenges, topicals, suppositories, patches, nebulizers and inhalers.
• Status: AMCC's 2025 annual report lists one licensed state testing laboratory (Green Health Laboratories, Foley). The first dispensary opened in Montgomery in June 2026 and a second in Talladega on August 28, 2026. Integrated facility licenses and one dispensary license are still under legal and administrative challenge.