Canna Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The CBD Product Safety and Standardization Act (the Act ) indicates that the Feds might regulate CBD as a food ingredient, and that it may lead to regulation of other cannabinoids. If the Feds regulate CBD as a food ingredient, it could seriously change the game (in a good way) for hemp CBD companies.

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Project CBD

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

HerbalGram, the acclaimed quarterly journal of the American Botanical Council, recently published its 2021 “Herb Market Report,” which included data on sales of CBD as an herbal ingredient in mainstream and natural retail channels in the United States. E-commerce sales of CBD in the U.S. Consumers spent roughly $31.3

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Project CBD

JANUARY 31, 2023

26, the FDA issued a CBD policy statement that reaffirmed its longstanding unwillingness or inability to regulate nonpharmaceutical CBD products. ” After stonewalling for years, the Foot Dragging Administration is basically admitting that its bureaucracy is unable to scale with the scope and magnitude of popular interest in CBD.

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Medical Marijuana Program Connection

JANUARY 30, 2023

… -up campaign in the Pinetown CBD this week which focuses on … food outlets in the Pinetown CBD during. Read More

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Medical Marijuana Program Connection

JANUARY 29, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration announced last week there’s not enough data addressing the “various safety concerns” of cannabidiol, or CBD, Read More

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Hemp Authority®(USHA), announced today a new partnership with Perry Johnson Registrars Food Safety, Inc. PJRSFSI) to bolster the hemp industry’s initiative to provide high standards, best practices, and self-regulation for hemp and hemp products like CBD. PJRFSI, a […]

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

That may be changing, at least with respect to CBD consumers. The Food and Drug Administration has gone after “CBD companies” for making allegedly unsubstantiated medical claims about their products. Now, the FTC is finally getting around to helping CBD consumers, it seems. FTC and CBD.

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Cannabis Cheri

MARCH 25, 2021

Care by Design Hemp , a wholly-owned CannaCraft brand, is pleased to announce that the groundbreaking clinical study exploring the effects of CBD on liver health has concluded after seven months of research. The results showed the study’s participants exhibited no evidence of liver toxicity after using CBD daily for a minimum of 60 days.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

We recently got to ask Kai-Friedrich Niermann of KFN+ Law Office some questions about EU Novel Food authorizations. His answers are a must-read for cannabis food businesses interested in the EU market. What is an EU Novel Food authorization? A novel food catalog is maintained in which the status of a food can be reviewed.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 29, 2020

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has green-lighted the “suitability check” of an application from Czech-based phytocannabinoids maker CBDepot for synthetically manufactured Cannabidiol (CBD) as a Novel Food ingredient, the company announced. We imagine there’s a long haul before approval.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Last week, the Food Standard Agency (“ FSA ”), the agency responsible for protecting public health in relation to food in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (collectively, the “UK”), cleared a path for the sale of CBD-infused food for the next 12 months.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 3, 2021

introduced legislation on May 21 to ensure hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) is regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) like other ingredients used in dietary supplements, foods, and beverages. FDA has approved one drug, Epidiolex®, which contains CBD. US Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.),

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The Food Safety and Security Authority of India (FSSAI) has given a green light to hemp seeds, hemp seed oil and seed-based flour as food and food ingredients , indicating the development of a huge market with some 1.4 New Regulations: Key Features . Only hemp seeds from plants that have less than 0.3%

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Canna Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On December 2, Congress introduced the CBD Product Safety and Standardization Act (the Act ), a bipartisan bill that would establish federal standards for food and beverage products containing hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD). Rice’s opinion on the need for CBD regulation. In a press release , U.S.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 5, 2021

House of Representatives on Thursday introduced a bill that would create a national regulatory framework for hemp-based CBD in food and beverages. CBD-Product-Safety-and-Standardization-Act. The bill is focused on food other than dietary supplements, the subject of previous CBD legislation in the Congress.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 26, 2020

The craze for hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) extends beyond the United States and into Europe. We’ve written a good amount on the difference between how the European Union (EU) regulates CBD in contrast to the United States, and link to a number of those posts at the bottom of this page.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The latest “drop” comes in the form of an August 1 memo from the Washington State Department of Agriculture (“WSDA”) titled Restrictions on the use of hemp CBD as a food ingredient. Epidiolex contains CBD. According to the WSDA, Hemp-CBD is not approved as a food ingredient.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 7, 2020

Executive Summary The UK’s Food Safety Authority responds to questions from industry about its new CBD compliance rules. Information behind paywall at [link] … Read More.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has rejected a Freedom of Information request submitted by HempToday (HT) regarding companies that currently have products in the agency’s CBD safety review, saying the request would create too much of a burden on its staff. Here’s what the website says.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 18, 2022

London , July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — SpectrumLeaf Europe’s Cannadips CBD pouches and Elevar Hemp CBD oral strips have recently been added to the UK’s Novel Food List. Other CBD products that do not meet the UK’s Novel Food requirements would eventually need to be removed from shelves.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 8, 2022

01 Jul 2022 — The UK’s Food and Standard Agency (FSA) has reached a “milestone” after authorizing almost 12,000 cannabinoid (CBD) products to its public list of items that can be marketed in England and Wales. It is an indication that the UK is moving faster than the EU and US at advancing safety regulation.”.

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NORML

MAY 15, 2019

NORML has submitted written comments to the US Food and Drug Administration ahead of the agency’s scheduled hearing on the regulation CBD-infused products. Currently, commercially marketed CBD-infused products are not subject to explicit federal regulations.

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Medicinal Genomics

AUGUST 9, 2021

We continue to see several conflations and misconceptions voiced in the discussion about microbial safety standards for cannabis products. The foundation for these misconceptions is the idea that cannabis testing regulations should mimic the food industry. We have not seen any food on the market that is 20% (weight/volume) antibiotic.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 26, 2020

and derived products containing cannabinoids, including CBD , as a “Novel Food” under the EU Novel Food Catalogue. Indeed, pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 2015/2283 (the “Regulation”), a “novel food” is any food that was not significantly used for human consumption within the European Union before May 15, 1997.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 9, 2021

The fate of 67 CBD food safety applications is unclear as UK food safety authorities reported June 1 that only 250 are still under active review. The Food Safety Agency (FSA) had said 317 applications were still under consideration when it last reported figures at the end of April. Hemp Today reports.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) were detected in certain batches of CBD” and they were being immediately recalled. The FSAI found that “unsafe Levels of delta?9?tetrahydrocannabinol The cannabis plant contains a range of cannabinoids – some of which are psychoactive. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is psychoactive and is considered a narcotic.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

( NYSE American: YCBD, YCBD.PR.A) , one of the nation’s leading and most highly trusted and recognized cannabidiol (CBD) … Read More. The post cbdMD Seeks To Obtain Regulatory Approval From United Kingdom’s Regulatory Food Safety Agency (FSA) first appeared on Cannabis Law Report.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 6, 2022

Charlotte’s Web Holdings, Inc. (TSX: CWEB) (OTCQX: CWBHF)’s CBD products have now been validated by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom. CBD market and marks a milestone for its original formula. Novel Foods are ingredients which are still not widely consumed by people in the U.K

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

This bill is aimed at paving the way for adding industrial hemp derived cannabidiol (“Hemp CBD”) to foods, beverages, and cosmetics. A food or beverage is not adulterated by the inclusion of industrial hemp products, including cannabidiol derived from industrial hemp.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

UK food regulators have stood by their threat to remove products containing CBD from sale if businesses do not gain special authorisation, and have set March 31, 2021 as the deadline for applications. The authorisation process ensures novel foods meet legal standards, including on safety and content.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 18, 2019

According to the latest version of the EU Novel Food Catalogue, EU regulators consider that CBD-containing foods and dietary supplements are classified as novel foods. In Germany, the regional/district authorities are responsible for monitoring and assessing the marketability of food and issuing sales bans.

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The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In its largest mass enforcement action involving cannabidiol (CBD) yet, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced on November 25 the issuance of 15 warning letters to various companies for illegally selling products containing CBD. Previously, the FDA had indicated it would generate a report by this Fall.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Sales of food, drinks and cosmetics with cannabidiol (CBD) are rising in Britain, with annual sales predicted to reach more than £750m next year. The food products include “hemp pasta”, toffee muffins and gummy bear sweets. CBD is an ingredient of cannabis, but does not contain…. Novel foods.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 24, 2019

Hemp CBD cookies, anyone? Our California hemp lawyers have been getting pummeled with questions about the legality of industrial hemp derived cannabidiol (“Hemp CBD”) ever since the 2018 Farm Bill was signed in January (and especially since our recent hemp and Hemp CBD webinar ). CBD in Foods, Beverages, and Cosmetics.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Product: Various CBD Foods and Food Supplements. tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) was detected in the below batches of CBD foods and food supplements. Nature Of Danger: The implicated batches of CBD foods and food supplements contain unsafe levels of delta?9?tetrahydrocannabinol

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 14, 2019

The Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition (AECOSAN) has struck a blow against hemp food producers in their ongoing efforts to clear a path for hemp extracts in food across Europe. That way of thinking makes extracts, derived from the hemp plant’s leaves and flowers, a “novel” food under EU rules.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

FEARS the European Commission will once more change its position on the status of CBD have receded after it Validated its first Novel Food applications for natural plant extracts. With validation now complete the applications in question will now be examined by the European Safety Authority (EFSA). Two-Year Delay.

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