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A bill introduced Wednesday in the U.S. Senate would legalize CBD and other hemp-derived ingredients in dietary supplements and conventional food and beverages.

The Hemp Access and Consumer Safety Act is critical “to protecting consumer safety and treating hemp producers fairly,” according to a news release from the three senators who introduced the bill: Democrats Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky.

FDA has proclaimed for several years that hemp-based CBD—or cannabidiol—cannot be lawfully marketed in dietary supplements or added to food and beverages because the cannabis-derived compound was first studied as a drug. But thousands of CBD-containing supplement brands emerged after Congress in 2018 legalized hemp, and CBD has been added to a variety of foods and beverages, from fast-food hamburgers to water.

For more information, click on https://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/regulatory/senators-introduce-cbd-bill-food-dietary-supplements?fbclid=IwAR1FJYjyiWULy8kPnvD–bhaZxG_GyjryqWuzkFdu6Aye96RDaWE9-pP3_E

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