CBD
FDA Issues CBD Warning Letters
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued warning letters to 15 companies for, according the agency, illegally selling products containing cannabidiol (CBD) in ways that violate the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). The FDA also published a revised Consumer Update detailing safety concerns about CBD products more broadly. The agency stated, based ...
President Trump Nominates Stephen Hahn as FDA Commissioner
According to Politico, President Donald Trump announced last week that he will nominate Stephen Hahn, MD, FASTRO, a cancer specialist and hospital administrator, to lead the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration). Trump had been rumored to make this selection for several months. If confirmed by the Senate, the top FDA post would mark Hahn’s first ...
House Passes Hemp and Cannabis SAFE Banking Act
The Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking (SAFE Banking) Act of 2019, H.R. 1595, first introduced in 2017 and reintroduced in March 2019 by Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO), was officially passed by the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday afternoon by a vote of 321 to 103. The hemp and cannabis industries have had to operate through ...
House to Look at Hemp Banking
Legislation that would encourage U.S. banks and credit card companies to do business with hemp and CBD companies will hit the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives as early as today. Difficulty in finding banks and credit card companies to handle financial transactions has been an issue surrounding the hemp industry for many months. There ...
NSF Brings Scientific Testing, Auditing and Certification to the Hemp and CBD Industry
NSF International has announced it is providing a wide variety of independent testing, verification, auditing and certification services to manufacturers of consumer products containing hemp and hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD). NSF subsidiary Quality Assurance International, Inc. (QAI), a USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture)-accredited organic certifier, began offering organic certification of hemp and hemp-derived CBD products last month. Hemp ...
CBD Developments in the Food and Beverage Industry
The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, commonly referred to as the Farm Bill, dramatically altered the landscape for companies seeking to grow, market, distribute and sell products containing hemp and its derivatives, including CBD (cannabidiol). CBD has no psychoactive properties, unlike THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the other primary commercially viable cannabinoid found in the plants of the ...
Colorado Governor Charts Course for CBD and Hemp Innovation
Colorado Governor Jared Polis rallied more than 200 hemp farmers, manufacturers, producers, retailers, and industry professionals during his keynote address to the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) Hemp-CBD (cannabidiol) Supplement Congress held earlier this month. No stranger to CBD and hemp legislation, Polis called for action for an easier hemp licensing application process, which he ...
Washington and the Natural Industry … Continued
Nutrition Industry Executive asked Karen Howard, CEO and executive director, Organic and Natural Health Association, Washington, D.C. (https://organicandnatural.org/), the following question: NIE: In late 2018, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018—the Farm Bill—passed. While it has provisions that some decry and some praise, certainly one major part of it was inclusion of the Hemp Farming ...
Washington and the Natural Industry
The Participants Are: • Jonathan Emord, Esq., President, Emord & Associates, Washington, D.C., www.emord.com • Karen Howard, CEO and Executive Director, Organic and Natural Health Association, Washington, D.C., https://organicandnatural.org/ • Mark LeDoux, Chair and CEO, Natural Alternatives International (NAI), Carlsbad, CA, www.nai-online.com • Dan Lifton, President, Maypro Ventures, Purchase, NY, http://maypro.com/ • Steve Mister, President ...
FDA Holds CBD Public Hearing
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public hearing on cannabidiol, also known as CBD, at its Silver Spring, MD headquarters on Friday, May 31. The New York Times (NYT), called the hearing “the hottest ticket in the capital.” More than 400 applicants, from the U.S. Hemp Roundtable to blue chip law firms, had ...
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