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US Warning Letter Summer Rerun: Delta-8 In Food Packaged Like Brands Popular With Children

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Noting similar warnings a year ago, the FDA and FTC announce warnings to six more, part of a joint effort to stop sales of copycat food products containing delta-8 THC, saying companies selling these "illegal products are demonstrating complete neglect for consumer safety.”

• Source: FDA

If it’s July and if Congress is setting appropriations for the next fiscal year, it must be time for the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission to publish warnings to US businesses offering food containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol in packaging similar to name-brand products.

The two agencies noted their July 2023 warning letters to six firms in a 16 July announcement of joint warnings to five companies and an FDA warning to a sixth as part of their ongoing joint effort to stop companies from selling illegal copycat food products containing delta-8 THC, saying the

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