Senate's USDA five-year reauthorization would remove hemp from federal list of controlled substances and lift limits on production in the US but does not contain language included in the House bill to make multivitamins eligible for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program purchases. House bill though, doesn't clear hemp production. "I think we have a lot of work of ahead of us on both fronts," says CRN President and CEO Steve Mister.
Absent from Capitol Hill during its Independence Day recess, the US Congress still occupied the dietary supplement industry's attention as much as ever by leaving town with two of the industry's key legislative goals hanging in the balance.
With each of the targeted changes included in one of two versions of legislation reauthorizing Department of Agriculture programs, the...