Daniel Fabricant
FDA Fails to Deliver Congressionally Mandated Report on CBD Regulations
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to meet its deadline to provide a Congressionally mandated report on how it plans to regulate CBD. Congress instructed the FDA in last year’s spending bill to adopt an enforcement discretion policy within 120 days and provide an update of its progress after 60 days. The agency’s first report ...
Senate Confirms Hahn as FDA Commissioner
In a 72-18 Senate vote, Stephen Hahn, MD, FASTRO was confirmed as the new head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), taking charge at a regulatory agency that oversees products ranging from complex cancer drugs, to food, cosmetics, tobacco and CBD. “We look forward to working with Dr. Hahn and his staff to ...
President Trump Nominates Stephen Hahn as FDA Commissioner
According to Politico, President Donald Trump announced last week that he will nominate Stephen Hahn, MD, FASTRO, a cancer specialist and hospital administrator, to lead the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration). Trump had been rumored to make this selection for several months. If confirmed by the Senate, the top FDA post would mark Hahn’s first ...
House of Representatives Instructs FDA to Regulate CBD
Legislation passed the House of Representatives on June 25 that would appropriate $100,000 for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to perform a Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) and set a safe level of CBD for consumers to use each day. The process would follow the same precedent as red yeast rice, which allows a natural product to ...
Industry Urges FDA to Define “Natural”
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) submitted comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) encouraging the agency to establish, through rulemaking, a regulatory definition for the term “natural” (and possibly other terms, such as “100 percent natural” and “made with natural [named ingredient(s)]”) for the labeling of human food products, and other products ...
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