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Senate FDA Appropriation Includes $2M For CBD Enforcement Discretion Policy

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Instruction in Appropriations Committee report on FY 2020 spending bill garners support from some stakeholders while others say setting a safe level of CBD's use in non-drug products should come first. Senate appropriators endorses FDA policy that regulations allowing sales of CBD non-drug products "not discourage the development of new drugs."

WASHINGTON - JULY 18: A sign at the entrance to a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing room in Washington, DC on July 18, 2017. The US Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress. - Image

US Senate appropriators direct the Food and Drug Administration to establish an enforcement discretion policy for products containing hemp-derived cannabidiol, but omit a step their House counterparts request of first setting a safe level for the ingredient's use in food and dietary supplements.

The instruction stated in the Senate

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