Policy and Politics

How is the novel food status of CBD progressing in Europe?

3rd July 2020 - Blogs |

Several major developments have all happened at the same time for novel foods. Perhaps most importantly, one of the European Commission’s departments – the  Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety – has said it is holding sending any further non-synthetic CBD applications to the European Food Safety Authority for evaluation until it has determined whether CBD technically falls under the definition of a narcotic according to the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

CBD-Intel COVID-19 news round-up

30th April 2020 - News analysis |

In order to help you keep track of how all this is affecting the CBD industry around the world, all CBD-Intel’s COVID-19-related coverage can now be found in one place here

BfR issues warning over adulterated German e-liquids

21st February 2020 - News analysis |

Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) recently issued a warning on e-liquids that it believed to be containing synthetic cannabinoids, after at least eight teenagers suffered medical complications from an as yet unconfirmed source

Video: Brexit round table

7th December 2019 - Resources , Videos |

The organisers of Hemp and CBD Expo invited our MD, Tim Phillips, to participate in their round table about Brexit. Their aim was to objectively understand what the Brexit impacts are going to be over the next few years for CBD and the UK CBD industry. Don’t miss out on this interesting debate. If you […]