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To determine safe, daily serving limits of hemp ingredients, the Hemp Roundtable recommends a “comprehensive rulemaking process” that takes stakeholders into consideration as well as government agencies.

Colorado, which legalized cannabis production and sales in 2012, has created a safety task force “grounded in science and industry experience” which the federal government should consider as “the most effective solution, the Hemp Roundtable said. (Also see "Absence Of Federal CBD Regulatory Pathway Complicates Doing Business In US, Clips Sales" - HBW Insight, 31 March, 2021.)

The trade group suggested language for the bill to authorize the US Department of Agriculture to establish a task force within 90 days after the bill’s passage, in consultation with the FDA and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to study the current 0.3% concentration limit for delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol and restrictions on other potentially intoxicating hemp derivatives.

The task force will review the current hemp concentration limit for THCs in hemp; whether additional cannabinoids or hemp derivatives should be restricted in finished hemp products due to potential for intoxication; and what type and form of limits should be used for finished hemp products.

The task force will include representatives from the FDA, the NIDA and hemp industry stakeholders including cultivators, testing laboratories, chemists, manufacturers/processors and distributors and other members as determined by the USDA.

Within 120 of its establishment, the task force will submit to the USDA a report with its findings and recommendations; no later than 90 days later, the agency, working with the FDA and other federal agencies will initiate a rulemaking process to implement the recommendations.

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