The Novel Food catalog lists substances that are controlled at the European level because they do not have a significant history of consumption in food before May 15, 1997, in the European Union. Thus, CBD appeared in the Novel Food catalogue in 2019, which requests that any use of cannabidiol in food regulations at the European level. However, each Member State may choose not to follow the Novel Food catalog, which complicates the regulation of CBD.
The UK's efforts to regulate CBD as a new food could suffer another setback. Indeed, the British authorities are closing in on a...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a public consultation on its updated opinion on the safety of cannabidiol (CBD) as a new...
A coalition of CBD-producing companies, ONE HEMP, whose goal is to mobilize Congress and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the American food authority, has...
Three years after it began calling for Cannabis leaves to be considered a traditional food, the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA)...
On April 25, the Czech Ministry of Agriculture issued a press release stating that CBD and other cannabinoids derived from...
For the past couple of weeks, the Direction générale de la consommation, de la concurrence et de la répression des fraudes (DGCCRF) has been monitoring suppliers of...
Can a country start legalizing cannabis and at the same time consider banning CBD? It would seem so. The Czech authorities responsible for...
In the absence of agreement on immediate regulation of cannabis light in Spain, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) has succeeded in getting Congress to approve an initiative...
Following the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) controversial decision to halt the processing of Novel Food applications for CBD on...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is pausing assessments of CBD as a Novel Food «due to data gaps and uncertainties...
With over 20,000 pharmacies in France, the pharmacy network represents a real outlet for CBD-based wellness products. Faced with...
It's a bit like the Polish version of the French battle over CBD flowers. The company Kombinat Konopny has won a major legal victory for the trade in...
Fears that the European Commission (EC) would once again change its position on the status of CBD have subsided after it...
The UK had required that by March 31, all ingestible products containing CBD had obtained their Novel Food certification from the Food Standard Agency...
The European Commission has revised its preliminary assessment of CBD and declared that cannabidiol is not a narcotic. This change of heart comes...
The UK has rejected the European Commission's preliminary position that CBD derived from hemp flower should be regulated as...
Regular Newsweed users will have noticed that we've been on hiatus for the past two weeks. But since there's no news to wait for us, here's a...
Novel Food applications for natural CBD have been suspended by the European Commission (EC), which has expressed a «preliminary conclusion» that the...
A consortium led by the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) will file 4 Novel Food applications for CBD, while continuing to challenge the...
The European Commission has received 240 Novel Food authorization applications for CBD-containing products since December 2018 Newsweed has learned from Lorenza Romanese...
