This standard gives guidelines for potentially acceptable techniques for lowering microbiological contamination in post-harvest inflorescence of cannabis and hemp. This standard is applicable to all post-harvest inflorescence of cannabis and hemp plants regardless of the regulatory classification of the plant from which they were derived. This standard does not address the following: techniques that can be used to prevent microbial contamination before, during, or after any cultivation or process step; methods for quantifying microbial contamination or the utilization of any of these techniques; techniques for lowering microbial contamination in manufactured products; control of degradation of non-microbial constituents, that is anything that is not a microbe, including toxins produced by endospores of these microbes. Cannabinoids and terpenes are an example of non-microbial constituents.