EFSA ‘Stopping The Clock’ On EU CBD Novel Foods Applications, But Doubts Remain Over Decision’s Impact In UK June 13, 2022 Ben Stevens United Kingdom 0 Comments THE European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) issued a statement last week announcing that its scientists ‘cannot currently establish the safety of cannabidiol (CBD) as a novel food’. EFSA said they were effectively ‘stopping the clock’ on the 19 European novel… Read More→
Regulator Issues Warning To Non-Complaint CBD Firms As It Prepares to Publish Much-Anticipated Public List December 14, 2021 Peter McCusker United Kingdom 0 Comments THE head of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) says it is now only a matter of weeks before it publishes further details on the CBD products and companies which will be allowed to remain on the UK market. At an… Read More→
CBD And Hemp Products Are ‘Over-The-Counter Medicines Or Novel Foods’ – Say Influential UK Trade Group June 28, 2021 Peter McCusker United Kingdom 0 Comments THE UK Government signalled its intent to support the country’s burgeoning CBD sector in January this year. In a letter to the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) the Home Office Minister Kit Malthouse asked it to determine a… Read More→
Five Key Pointers For US Firms Looking To Enter the European CBD Market February 10, 2021 Peter McCusker Europe, Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments WHILE the CBD boom has been well underway in the US for many years things are just starting to take shape in Europe. Over the last six months the European CBD industry has started to boom, and Forbes reports that… Read More→
UK Halts CBD Imports As It Enforces Strict Rules On Trace THC Levels February 9, 2021 Peter McCusker Hemp Policy & Legal, United Kingdom 0 Comments A CHANGE of direction from the Home Office has put a stop to some bulk CBD imports over concerns they have ‘illegal’ levels of THC. This development follows a January request by Police and Justice Minster Kit Malthouse for further… Read More→
Bold Move To Free CBD From The Shackles Of Novel Food Features A Cannabis Soup Served To A Medieval Pope January 15, 2021 Peter McCusker Europe, Hemp Industry News 0 Comments EUROPE’S leading hemp trade group is set to make a significant move which could free much of the continent’s CBD industry from the shackles of the Novel Food regime. The European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) has spent many months scouring centuries-old historical… Read More→