Even in the “highly unlikely event” that the FDA does make CBD supplements legal, it will not do so retroactively, according to plaintiffs against CV Sciences in California’s Central District. However, the federal court, which also is hearing a similar case against competitor Charlotte’s Web, is not convinced.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, powered by Breast Cancer Prevention Partners and the Environmental Working Group, intends to present the 117^th Congress with links between cosmetic ingredients and increased COVID susceptibility as part of its push for tighter cosmetics industry oversight.

Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education, and Research Act would amend FDA regulations to include sesame as major allergen and allow agency to add other food ingredients as major allergens based on prevalence and severity of allergic reactions. FDA, meanwhile, published guidance for voluntarily labeling sesame as an allergen while it develop its factors for evaluating which food allergens in addition to the eight already specified in its regulations should be designated as requiring additional controls, including allergen labeling.