| (a) Crop Inspection.
(1) The applicant shall notify the department's Regional
Office in the area in which the field is located, two weeks prior
to the time of the first inspection.
(2) It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure
that fields are registered and inspected by a representative of the
Texas Department of Agriculture at least once prior to swathing or
harvesting. Foundation, Registered, and Certified monoecious types
and unisexual hybrids and Foundation dioecious types shall be inspected
by a representative of the department at least two times.
(3) A field that is cut, swathed or harvested prior
to any required crop inspection is not eligible for certification.
(4) Fields must be inspected at a stage of growth when
varietal purity is best determined. Crops not inspected at the proper
stage for best determining varietal purity may be cause for declining
certified status.
(A) First inspection for all classes of monoecious
types must be made just before or at early flowering. First inspection
for all classes of dioecious types must be made after flowering when
male plants are beginning to senesce.
(B) Second inspection for all classes of monoecious
types and the Foundation class of dioecious types must be made when
seeds are physiologically maturity.
(C) Isolation areas will be inspected for volunteer
industrial hemp plants on each inspection.
(b) Isolation.
(1) The area, density, stage of maturity and location
of any contaminating pollen source is an important factor in cross
pollination, and therefore must be noted on the Field Inspection Report
for consideration in determining certification status. There shall
not be any Cannabis sativa L. plants within 300 ft. of the crop and
not more than 10 plants/2.5 acres beyond 300 ft. within the isolation
requirement (this refers to individual plants, see Figure 1 of this
section for field isolation standards).
(2) The required isolation must be present prior to
flowering and crop inspection.
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(c) Impurity Standards.
(1) Impurities should be removed prior to crop inspection.
(2) Any combination of impurities may be reason for
declining certified status.
(3) Table 2 indicates the maximum number of impurities
permitted in approximately 10,000 plants of the inspected crop. The
inspector makes at least 6 counts (10,000 plants each) or the equivalent
to determine the number of impurities. The resulting average of these
counts must not exceed the maximum impurity standards in Figure 2
of this section.
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