FDA Looks Into Regulating CBD In Food, Beverages And More

(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it will hold a public hearing next month to discuss developing a regulatory framework for the use of CBD in consumer products, including foods and beverages. CBD, the abbreviation for cannabidiol, is one of the non-psychoactive ingredients in cannabis, increasingly thought to offer wide-ranging health benefits, with few side effects and low risk of addiction or abuse. Tetrahydrocannabinol or THC is the main psychoactive component of the cannabis plant. Related: CBD – What Is It And Why Do People Use It? FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said in a statement that the move was part of an effort to build “lawful pathways by which appropriate products containing cannabis or cannabis-derived compounds can be marketed” and made “more predictable and efficient.” Gottlieb, who announced last month that he was resigning from his post, also renewed his pledge to crack down on companies promoting “unfounded, egregious claims about their products’ ability to limit, treat or cure cancer, neurodegenerative conditions, autoimmune diseases, opioid use disorder, and other serious diseases.” Last month, he said, the FDA sent warning letters to PotNetwork Holdings in Florida, Nutra Pure in Washington state and Advanced Spine and Pain in New Jersey for “making unsubstantiated claims related to more than a dozen different products and spanning multiple product webpages, onli...
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