New Brunswick requires licenses for violations by Organigram

Poor growing practices led to mandatory cannabis testing during Canada’s medical era. More than one grower was to blame for incidents involving banned pesticides, however. And in 2019, after another violation, one of the guilty producers led to more mandatory testing and new licenses.

Mandatory tests for license holders

A report on this topic discussed new testing guidelines aimed at mitigating and preventing major contamination events. In addition to testing facilities, a new licensing system will be introduced next month. Instead of using pesticides, Organigram operated cooling towers without an adequate cleaning system. Bacteria pooled inside the system and flew over Moncton, New Brunswick. An outcry erupted over the lack of binding rules after the incident, as more than a dozen people became seriously ill.

Testing is a step towards containing future outbreaks. But Bill 91 provides guidance for the new registry of cooling tower licenses following the Organigram breach. And according to a press release from the New Brunswick Department of Health, licenses to operate cooling towers will be mandatory beginning August 1, 2022. However, the annual fee of $450 was waived until March 31, 2023

exchange ministers

Bill 91 regulates the new cooling tower licensing system proposed by former Health Secretary Dorothy Shephard. But soon after the bill passed, Shephard was swapped with Social Development Secretary Bruce Fitch. The reason for this, however, was an unfortunate death in a waiting room in the emergency room of a hospital.

However, on June 30, Premier Higgins announced New Brunswick’s new deputy secretary of health. And shortly after the law passed, Organigram settled an older class action lawsuit.

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