Along with the development of hemp as a legal U.S. agricultural crop, there’s been a growing shift to move hemp’s byproduct – hempseed cake – into cattle diets as a viable feedstuff.
Farmers are prohibited from feeding animals hempseed cake since the legal limits of cannabinoids CBD and THC in processed meat was unknown and not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
However, new research from USDA’s Agricultural Research Service is a significant step toward hemp cake becoming approved by the FDA. The research discovered that processed meat from cattle-fed hempseed cake does have low residues of cannabis chemicals in cattle muscles, livers, kidneys, and fat tissue.
“The USDA’s study is essential in showing the safety of hempseeds in cattle diets and provides data on the safety of that beef entering the supply chain,” says Michael Kleinhenz, professor of beef production medicine at Kansas State University.
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