A Missouri judge has upheld a cannabis product recall after the manufacturer in question filed a motion for a temporary restraining order.
The Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) announced the recall Aug. 14 for products manufactured by Robertsville-based Delta Extraction. Regulators said the affected products “were not compliantly tracked in the statewide track and trace system, METRC, to allow the DCR to verify that the products came from marijuana grown in Missouri or that the product passed required testing prior to being sold at dispensaries.”
The state recalled roughly 62,000 total products containing Delta Extraction’s THC concentrate, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The DCR suspended the company’s license Aug. 2, the news outlet reported, then issued an administrative hold on the products a few days later before issuing the full product recall on Aug. 14.
Delta Extraction then filed a motion Aug. 16 for a temporary restraining order, arguing that the state had launched an “unlawful campaign to destroy Delta’s business through arbitrary, unjustified and unexplained administrative actions targeting Delta’s products,” according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Cole County Circuit Judge Cotton Walker ruled Aug. 30 that Delta Extraction did not have grounds to challenge the recall in court because the company has not yet gone through the administrative appeal process, the news outlet reported.
The company did file an appeal with the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission Aug. 3, according to the St. Louis Dispatch, and the commission’s decision remains pending.
