Everywhere In Supplements And Food, Is Hemp Safe Enough To Be Lawful? US FDA Wants Science Board's Help Solving Regulatory Conundrum

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

FDA says Science Board, “utilizing cannabinoids as a case study,” will consider challenges in evaluating safety of “ingredients with predicted pharmacological activity” used in supplements and food. Other ingredients also used in supplements and food also could be on its radar, but for good reason cannabinoids are focus of Science Board discussion.

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The US Food and Drug Administration will ask advisors about evaluating the safety of dietary supplements and food containing cannabinoids more than three years after it opened a window on allowing a regulatory pathway for the ingredients’ lawful use in those products.

A Science Board meeting on 14 June also will come after the FDA opted to keep open indefinitely a docket...

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