House Appropriations subcommittee with FDA oversight makes clear in questions for Commissioner Gottlieb they support allowing use of constituent ingredients from hemp and cannabis plants in food and dietary supplement products. Members also press for approving US firms' applications for pharmaceuticals with cannabis-derived active ingredients. Gottlieb announces working group will guide FDA decisions on potential CBD-use rulemaking.
A "high-level working group" will consider FDA's options for allowing hemp- or cannabis-derived ingredients in nutritional products, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb recently told House appropriators highly interested in the agency's plans for regulating the substances.
Democrat and Republican members of the Appropriations Committee's subcommittee with FDA oversight made clear in their questions for Gottlieb on...