Business of cannabis
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued its first positive safety assessment for a consortium application in its CBD Novel Foods approval process, seeing the European Industrial Hemp Association’s (EIHA) RP427 application progress to the ‘risk management’ phase.
Coming just months after the first two individual applications were given positive risk assessments in May, this represents another major step forward for the UK CBD industry’s arduous journey towards full regulation.
EIHA’s RP427 application represents over 160 companies from across the UK, Europe and the US, and includes over 1000 products.
Given the complexities of attempting to approve hundreds of products at once, a strategy that was initially not allowed by the regulation, EIHA aimed to standardise the entire procedure, imposing strict guidelines on the starting material and extraction methods.
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