$16 Billion—that’s how much the CBD market is expected to rake in by 2025, according to a Forbes report on a survey by investment bank Cowen & Co. With numbers like that, it’s no wonder pretty much everyone was clamoring to gain a better understanding of the CBD landscape at...
Anaheim, CA—CBD, cannabidiol, hemp, phytocannabinoids, endocannabinoids, full-spectrum extract, CBD isolate—as WholeFoods previously reported, the debate over which forms to put into products, how to label it, what to say about it (and what not to say) at the retail level grows larger and louder as hemp-based products gain popularity, which...
CBD has a huge following, and the pace of growth shows no signs of slowing: CBD, hemp, phytocannabinoids, endocannabinoids, full-spectrum extract, CBD isolate—as the hemp plant gets more popular, the debate over what forms are best, how to best label it, how to sell it and how to handle legal issues...
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, D.C.—Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, announced his resignation, effective in April. The announcement came at the start of Expo West, causing much buzz and speculation as to what had led to the resignation—and what the impact would be for the natural products industry. The New...
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...
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...
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