Safe Level For CBD As Dietary Ingredient? FDA Continues Data Review

Associate commissioner Lowell Schiller's comments at recent trade group regulatory conference mark agency's first public statement on likely direction on CBD's use in food, supplements. Potentially allowing CBD's use also is making FDA "think about whether we have the tools and resources we need to take this on," Schiller said.

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The US Food and Drug Administration needs to be convinced a safe level of cannabidiol for use in food and dietary supplements can be determined from research or it could require firms to submit evidence showing the ingredient is safe in their products.

"If we don’t think we have the data to say that there is some level of CBD that can safely...

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