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California Legalizes CBD in Dietary Supplements, Food and Cosmetics
On Oct. 6, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 45, legalizing cannabidiol (CBD) in dietary supplements, food and cosmetics. AB 45 will allow CBD and other parts of the hemp plant to be included in food, beverages and cosmetics in California upon rigorous testing and regulatory requirements. The law also prohibits all forms of THC in ...
CV Sciences and Alkemist Labs Form Partnership to Support the NIST’s CannaQAP
CV Sciences, Inc. (San Diego, CA) has announced an ongoing partnership with Alkemist Labs (Garden Grove, CA) to collaborate with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on efforts to help cannabis testing labs demonstrate and improve measurement capabilities and comparability. The tools developed by this NIST cannabis program will support measurements establishing legal, ...
Quality is as Quality Does
Re-examining dietary supplement ingredient quality in a supply-disrupted world. Our expert panel: Daniel Fabricant, PhD, President and CEO, Natural Products Association (NPA), Washington, D.C., www.npanational.org Salma Fathalla, Director, Quality Assurance, Nutrition21, Purchase, NY, https://nutrition21.com Dan Lifton, President, Maypro Ventures, Purchase, NY, www.maypro.com Vishal Shah, Director, Nutriventia, Mumbai, India, https://nutriventia.com William Sommer, Vice President Global Development ...
New Hampshire Joins List of States to Propose CBD Regs
As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to defy mounting requests from the U.S. Congress and the natural products industry to provide science-based and public health regulations for CBD, more states are rushing in to fill the vacuum, according to the Natural Products Association (NPA). New Hampshire recently joined Virginia, Texas and Hawaii ...
Beyond CBD? Denver-based company aims to forge a new path forward with CBN
Nutrition Industry Executive (NIE) magazine spoke with Charlotte Mosher, director of sales and marketing for Slumber CBN, which is located in Denver, CO (https://slumbercbn.com): NIE: Why is CBN important as an ingredient, and how are you differentiating it, products, and market-wise, from CBD and full-spectrum hemp extracts? CBN is a minor cannabinoid that has been ...
Hemp Lights Up the Natural Products Industry
Despite a smoky regulatory landscape for CBD and hemp-derived products, the power of this $4.7 billion-dollar market alone may mandate a clearer future. Our expert CBD panel: Zora De Grandpre, ND, Physician, Leafreport, Tel Aviv, Israel, www.leafreport.com Alice Hirschel, PhD, Technical Service Director, ABITEC, Columbus, OH, www.abiteccorp.com Collette Kakuk, Vice President of Global Marketing, HempRise, ...
AOAC Approves Method of Analysis for Cannabinoids in Hemp
AOAC International has announced that a liquid chromatography–diode array detection (LC-DAD) method previously approved as Official Method of Analysis 2018.11 for cannabinoids in cannabis plant materials, concentrates, and oils, is now approved for hemp. “Until now, no globally recognized method for validating the potency of hemp was available to laboratories,” said Scott Coates, program lead for ...
USDA Unveils New Federal Hemp Production Rules Amid Concerns from the Industry
The U.S. hemp/CBD industry reached another milestone at the end of 2019, as long-awaited federal rules were announced governing hemp production in the U.S. Still, many in the industry have expressed frustration at some of the new requirements making it more difficult than ever to grow, process and market hemp. And, there still remains a ...
Alkemist Labs and Nutrasource Collaborate on THC Compliance Testing
Alkemist Labs (Garden Grove, CA), a contract testing lab specializing in botanical identity and potency testing for the dietary supplement industry, and Nutrasource, a Canadian contract research organization that helps health product companies bring products to market, are preparing to launch a comprehensive third-party verification program designed to support accurate, verifiable label claims regarding the ...
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