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UK FSA Adds More CBD Products To List, Some ‘Removed,’ As Regulatory Chaos Continues

 
• By David Ridley

The UK’s Food Standards Agency has added almost 2,500 products to its recently published cannabidiol list, and “removed” 34, meaning that they must be withdrawn from retail shelves immediately. Confusion remains, however, with the regulator's  shadowy "active application" category conflicting with its advice to enforcers to start clamping down not just on products marked "removed" but also products not on the list.

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The UK’s Food Standards Agency has added almost 2,500 products to its recently published cannabidiol list, and “removed” 34, meaning that they must be withdrawn from retail shelves immediately.

Among the latter are products using CBD from Dragonfly Biosciences Ltd – which stocks, among other retailers, pharmacy chain Boots’ and grocery multiple Tesco’s shelves – and brands like Jacob Hooy, which

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