Thousands of CBD Products Take Final Step Towards UK Novel Foods Approval

The UK’s long-running project to regulate CBD (cannabidiol) products has taken another major step forward, seeing thousands of products make it to the final phase of the novel foods approval process.

Yesterday, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced that its 12-week public consultation to discuss the authorisation of three applications, which represent nearly 3000 CBD isolate products.

After half a decade, this marks the final step towards the UK becoming the first country to officially regulate the non-intoxicating cannabis extract, in what the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) called ‘a crucial milestone confirming the safety profile of hemp-derived CBD’.

View the full article from Business of Cannabis here

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