In April 2025, the Italian government used emergency constitutional powers to bypass parliament and reclassify non-intoxicating hemp as a narcotic, regardless of THC content, following multiple failed attempts to decimate the industry.
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued its first positive safety assessment for a consortium application in its CBD Novel Foods approval process, seeing the European Industrial Hemp Association’s (EIHA) RP427 application progress to the ‘risk management’ phase.
Yesterday, the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) published new guidance on the safe limit of CBD which can be ingested daily, significantly reducing the figure from 70mg to 10mg.
Co-written by Business of Cannabis and Cannabis Health The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) today published a shock update to its consumer guidance on the recommended daily dosage of CBD.
THREE years since it launched its fight to have cannabis leaves re-branded a traditional food the European Industrial Hemp Association has landed a major victory.
RESS RELEASE EIHA is delighted that Marco Fugazza, an economist and specialist in international trade and labour markets, at the ‘United Nations Conference on Trade & Development’ (UNCTAD) will be presenting the latest publication of the ‘Commodity at Glance’ series on Industrial hemp.
After 60-plus years of negativity and prohibition the tide has turned for hemp at the highest levels of global governance, explain Lorenza Romanese, Managing Director and Francesco Mirizzi, Senior Policy Advisor, at the European Industrial Hemp Association.
THE European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) has responded to a number of criticisms from within the industry surrounding its Novel Foods toxicological studies.
PRESS RELEASE On 25th of Oct 2022 the Cabinet of the Health Ministry of Germany released a federal government’s key points paper containing the basic framework for the legalisation of the Cannabis for adult use market.
