An overarching trend in the dietary supplement category? Plant-based. This won’t come as a surprise, if you’ve been following the trends at all: as health and environmental research comes out, with all of it pointing towards the importance of plants, demand is rising. And it’s rising in unexpected places. This...
Washington—Bluebird Botanicals announced that it is among thef 13 companies to receive The U.S. Hemp Authority Certification Seal for meeting standards in quality and safety in the hemp industry. The press release states that the seal represents these companies' ability to ensure that consumers have safe and accurate labels on...
Washington, D.C.—Hemp and CBD are making the news again, this time thanks to potential legal and regulatory movement. Scott Gottlieb, M.D., commissioner of FDA, gave a speech at the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) Winter Policy Annual Conference on February 26th, in which he mentioned that NASDA...
Clearwater, FL—Acacia Diversified Holdings, Inc. announced in a press release that their subsidiary, Eufloria Medical of Tennessee, has entered into a hemp research partnership with Tennessee State University (TSU). The release says that Eufloria will be manufacturing material for the university. Eufloria is a vertically-integrated hemp operation. The research partnership...
Nanaimo, British Columbia--Tilray, Inc., a company that specializes in the research, cultivation, production and distribution of cannabis and cannabinoids, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Manitoba Harvest from Compass Group Diversified Holdings and other shareholders. Manitoba Harvest, the world's largest hemp food manufacturer, has products in over 16,000 stores...
South Plainfield, NJ—With sales of hemp-based products and CBD booming, WholeFoods Magazine has added "hemp-based products" as a new category to the WholeFoods Source Book Online (available at naturalproductfinder.com) and the WholeFoods Source Directory (available in print in May). The WholeFoods Source Book Online offers searchable microsites for thousands of industry companies. Users can easily...
As cannabidiol (CBD) fever sweeps the nation, some states are cracking down. As reported previously, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Illinois are all attempting to negotiate new laws around the sudden legality of CBD, while Oregon requested a clarification from the FDA on just what those laws are. FDA Commissioner Scott...
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) issued an expanded Hemp-CBD report, intended to help the herbal products industry understand the new regulatory landscape. The report was created by AHPA in conjunction with legal and industry experts, according to AHPA’s press release on the matter. It is titled Status Report: Marketing...
Pierre, SD--As WholeFoods previously reported, South Dakota's Senate Health and Human Services Committee was considering Senate Bill 22, which would have classified most CBD oil as a Schedule IV controlled substance. Following push back from the public and hemp activists about the generalized classification, the Committee amended the bill. According to a report in Rapid...
Issues surrounding the regulation of hemp and CBD on the state and federal levels have been dominating news headlines in January. Here, a glimpse at some of the latest: South Dakota: State Senate Bill 22 is scheduled for hearing on January 23. The issue to be discussed, according to Rapid City...
