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German Company Recalls Hemp Food Oil After Warning By Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety

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HempToday reports…… German company Thomas Plank has issued a recall on its hemp food oil after getting warned by the country’s Federal Office of Consumer … Read More.

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India: Food Safety and Security Authority of India (FSSAI) Authorizes “hemp seeds, hemp seed oil and seed-based flour as food and food ingredients”

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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 Only hemp seeds from plants that have less than 0.3% billion consumers, reported Hemp Today.

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Cannabis and Novel Food Authorizations in the EU: Q&A

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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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Europe Raises THC Levels For Hemp Food Products In Major Breakthrough For Industry

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EUROPE’S decision to establish a new maximum level of THC in hemp food products will prompt a surge of investment, says the industry’s leading trade group. mg/kg for hempseed oil. It will greatly help our members and all food business operators wishing to work with hemp seed derived products, such as hemp seed oil.”.

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Spain’s Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition (AECOSAN) Follows EIHA’s Lead

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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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Charlotte’s Web hemp extract validated in the U.K. Food Standards Agency

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(TSX: CWEB) (OTCQX: CWBHF)’s CBD products have now been validated by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom. On Monday, the Denver-based, vertically-integrated company said its full-spectrum hemp extract has passed the validation phase and moved into the safety assessment phase of the Novel Foods application process.

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Europe proposes to raise limit levels for THC in food

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According to a report in French publication Newsweed this could be happening… The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in 2015 set the maximum daily dose of THC at 1?g g (microgram) per kilogram of body weight (bw) in food. mg per kg (ppm) of THC for hemp oil, we still think it doesn’t go far enough.

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