FSA Reveals Permitted CBD Product List
The Food Standards Agency has unveiled a compilation of cannabidiol items that companies can sell to customers in the United Kingdom. This FSA CBD list may get published next year, after years of collaboration between the Association for the Cannabinoid Industry and the Food Standards Agency. Thus, the UK has become the first nation that regulates the market of legal, safe and oral cannabis extracts.
Under UK novel foods CBD requirements, only those items on the list can stay in the market for sale. The FSA requires taking other cannabidiol products off the shelves.
A Big Milestone For The UK
ACI Founder Steve Moore stated that the FSA compilation represents a big event for the United Kingdom’s cannabidiol category. As for Steve Moore, it shows the progress in the industry to satisfy compliance requirements. Moore added that the list makes greater certainty over CBD regulations, which would increase customer trust levels, encourage innovation and promote investment in this industry. Moore expressed the ACI’s gratitude for the efforts of the Food Standards Agency and its own members for the momentous move.
The Food Standards Agency assessed the cannabidiol items part of the compilation under the so-called novel foods process for quite a while. The FSA was open to extending the novel foods application deadline to March 31, 2021, for the products made for oral use that were sold in this nation until February 2020 mid.
Items launched following the February deadline cannot be sold in this country until the FSA grants them full permission unless their producers submitted a dossier on or before the March deadline.
In February last year, a dossier was filed for the members of the ACI at the FSA. Many of those products that wait for validation and authorization will stay in the market.
The ACI has completed the live stage of the so-called OECD toxicology experiment required for validating dossiers and will finish related data analysis in June this year.
Moore stated that the ACI is proud that, with its consortium study, every ACI member has been added to the FSA public list, thus being entitled to keep selling their product in the nation.
The compilation applies to items on sale only in the England and Wales jurisdiction. On the other hand, Food Standards Scotland (FSS) covers the products sold north of the border. Northern Ireland-based CBD businesses must keep following the rules and procedures related to novel foods.
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