The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking a contractor to monitor social media sites like TikTok, Instagram and Reddit for conversations about marijuana and hemp products, and to conduct a survey of cannabis consumers, among other tasks.
The agency said in a request for quotes that it is seeking help to “address knowledge gaps on cannabis, cannabidiol (CBD), and emerging products and help inform work on policy and regulation, education and outreach, and compliance activities.”
The social media monitoring services will “capture data on products, ingredients, claims, consumer conditions, sentiments, and other attributes,” and FDA wants to be able to filter posts “by age-group, sex, persona, and other attributes…using trained artificial intelligence (AI) modeling, with click-through to verbatim conversation postings.”
FDA also wants the contractor to conduct a “US Cannabis Consumer Survey” focused on dispensary shoppers.
“The survey will collect data on consumer symptoms and paths to purchase, as well as product preferences, desired effects, medical conditions, occasions, frequency and history of use, average purchases, and preferred dosages,” the posting says.
A broader general population survey will also cover “consumer packaged goods adoption and needs, conditions, and behaviors, including use of cannabis, kratom, psilocybin, and emerging products in other
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