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California Breaks With the FDA, Poised to Legalize Hemp Cannabinoids in Food and Beverage Products

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The California Legislature has passed a bill that will allow California consumers to purchase food, beverage, dietary supplements, and cosmetics manufactured with hemp-derived cannabinoids such as cannabidiol (CBD). Assembly Bill 45 (AB45), which is expected to be signed into law before Oct. No dice, said the FDA.

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NIST and FDA May Be the Cannabis Quality Assurance Heroes We Need

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To date, it’s truly been “buyer beware” outside of states putting together their own protocols on things like recalls, packaging and labeling safety standards, quality assurance reviews, and testing. CBD testing, packaging, and labeling is no consumer safety picnic either.

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Statement: Kiffmeyer: Adding clarity and safeguards to Minnesota’s hemp industry

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Friends and neighbors, Imagine if the federal government built a new highway in Minnesota that had no speed limit and posed a great safety threat to motorists. To keep our drivers safe, it became necessary for the Minnesota Legislature to pass a state law to reduce the speed limit to 60 mph. or less THC.

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Washington Q&A: Hemp Processor Registration and Hemp Extract Certification

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SB 5372 went into effect on July 25, 2021, and creates a voluntary registration and certification program that hemp processors can opt-in to in the Evergreen State. The purpose of SB 5372 is to allow Washington hemp companies to sell ingestible hemp products, like hemp-CBD, in other states that require certain safety standards.

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CBD Cosmetics: Unregulated, Yes. Risk-Free, No.

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This is partially due to the fact that the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) and many state regulators do not seem to take issue with the sale and marketing of these products but also because the cosmetic industry has been self-regulated for nearly a century. The post CBD Cosmetics: Unregulated, Yes. Risk-Free, No.

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Six Requirements for CBD Product Labels

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Because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that CBD-infused foods and dietary supplements cannot be lawfully sold or marketed in the United States, we’re left with a patchwork of often inconsistent state laws. One of the areas where there can be the biggest differences is in CBD product labels.

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New Trademark Litigation Against “Stoney Patch” Cannabis Products Calls Out an Industry Trend of Copycats

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Yet ANOTHER Cannabis Trademark Infringement Case: Tapatio Foods Files Suit. Defendants have adopted the confusingly similar brand name STONEY PATCH, have copied the look of MCI’s actual product, and have copied the look of the packaging that has long been associated with MCI’s SOUR PATCH candies.