NMS2S doesn't just move where your data lives, it changes what "tested" means. If you've been treating a passed test as something that follows a batch through every downstream step, that's the part that's different now. Here's the third piece of this series: the full transition timeline and who your new system administrator is are the other two.
Testing Is Now a Gate, Not a Checkbox
NMS2S draws a hard line between product still in production and product that's actually sale-ready. Sale-ready inventory only exists as two types — Packaged Products or Deli Style Flower — and neither one can convert to sale-ready or transfer to retail without a finished-product test that meets 16.8.7.15 NMAC. No test, no sale-ready status. That's the whole mechanism.
Same Product, New Form? New Test.
The state requires testing at a product's "Unpackaged" stage — the specific point where its form won't change again before final packaging. That's deliberate: if the product changes form after that test, changes further, or gets additional ingredients, the resulting product needs its own new finished-product test before it goes anywhere near retail. A passed test doesn't travel with a batch through processing anymore. It only covers the product in the form it was tested in.
Say a batch of concentrate passes its test clean, and before it's bottled, terpenes get added back in. That's a new ingredient on an already-tested product — it needs a new test before it can be packaged as sale-ready, even though nothing about the base concentrate itself changed.
Labs Reopen Tomorrow — Line Up Retests Now
Testing labs can't take samples August 25 through August 31, with all prior results migrated over by the time that window closes. That resumes tomorrow, August 31. If anything in your pipeline changed form during the blackout and needs a new finished-product test before it can be sale-ready, get it queued now so you're not sitting on inventory the moment labs are back online.
Bottom Line
The bar isn't just "get it tested," it's "get it tested in the form it'll actually be sold in." Once a batch clears its Unpackaged stage, treat the test as locked to that exact form — any further processing or added ingredients starts the clock over. With labs back online tomorrow, that's the moment to get anything from the blackout window queued, not after inventory backs up behind it.
Source: NMS2S Transition Page, 16.8.7.15 NMAC