Reviewing two "test" CBD dossiers, the UK Food Standards Agency's novel foods advisory committee finds safety data lacking, suggesting that new studies will be needed for approval.
Companies looking to get their CBD food supplements approved for the UK market will need to do further safety studies, warns the committee that will soon be evaluating CBD dossiers on behalf of the country’s Food Standards Agency.
According to minutes from its last meeting, the FSA’s Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) reviewed two CBD dossiers informally submitted to the FSA as a training exercise to prepare for when it assumes responsibility for
France's food safety regulator ANSES is proposing a reproductive toxicity category 1B classification for CBD under the EU's CLP regulation, which would mean an effective ban on CBD in cosmetics and foods. However, French hemp industry association UIVEC hopes that new evidence coming out of a European Commission review will put the issue to bed before it gets that far.
European Food Safety Authority finds no cause and effect relationship between Givaudan's Pacran supplement and defense against urinary tract infections.
Manufacturers, marketers and other businesses in the industry may be thinking, “Well, this is different” because the president ordered tariffs on a list of countries rather than on his sole first-term target of China.
Tariffs on imports from China and look at eliminating self-affirmed GRAS pathway introduced under Trump while DoJ Consumer Protection Branch also continues supplement sector priorities enduring across administrations.
Three FDA warnings related to supplement manufacturing, labeling or marketing submitted to Amazon or companies selling vitamin, mineral or supplement products on its e-commerce platform since April 2024.
Four months into session, no bills have been introduced in Congress to authorize FDA to establish a regulatory pathway for the lawful use of hemp ingredients in products other than drugs or propose some other solution to the federal conundrum present since lawmakers in 2018 de-scheduled hemp.
Dyes and colors which FDA says industries agree should no longer be used aren’t unsafe and are currently used only with the agency’s approval, industry stakeholders say. Center for Science in the Public Interest says the dyes are used “in tens of thousands of foods and beverages that are commonly consumed here in the United States.”
