A congressional committee has scheduled a hearing for next week focused on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) refusal to enact regulations to allow for the marketing of hemp-derived CBD products. And bipartisan and bicameral lawmakers have separately reintroduced a bill to fill the regulatory gap.
The House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services scheduled the hearing—titled “Hemp in the Modern World: The Years long Wait for FDA Action”—for July 27.
Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-MI) said in a press release on Thursday that “FDA has failed for too long to do its job to ensure the safety of legalized hemp-derived products.”
“Without these regulations, dangerous products could make their way to the shelves while safe and credible CBD products could be prevented from entering the market,” she said. “We are going to investigate why exactly the FDA has decided to ignore their regulation responsibilities related to CBD and other areas of jurisdiction. We need to ensure that the FDA is not setting what would be a dangerous precedent and using this as an opportunity to seek more authority and resources from Congress.”
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who chairs the full committee, has sharply criticized FDA after
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