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Husch Blackwell LLP

A Cannabis Pivot to Smokable Herbs

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As the cannabis industry continues to navigate choppy economic and legal waters into 2024, some cannabis companies are pivoting to the smokable herbs market. And I do not mean to those hemp-derived intoxicating cannabinoids...more

Perkins Coie

Cannabis Legal Report - July 2023

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FDA and FTC Issue Cease and Desist Letters to Companies Selling Delta-8 Edibles - On July 5, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly sent cease and desist letters to six companies...more

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Bamboozling - Part I: Do Green Claims Require a Life Cycle Analysis?

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The title of this series is an homage to the great Lesley Fair, who launched and authors many of the best of the FTC’s business blogs and who coined this term in her blog reviewing 2013 cases on the same topic. But we are...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Labeling Considerations For Cannabis Pet Products

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With the passing of the 2018 Farm Bill, the market for cannabis pet products has rapidly grown. As a result, broad-reaching marketing campaigns highlighting the available products and the claimed benefits have become much...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Can hashtags get you in trouble?

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They can if you operate in a regulated industry, such as pharma, med devices, cannabis, dietary supplements, etc. FDA has specific labeling requirements for products and they look at hashtags related to products the same...more

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The Regulation Of Hemp, Hemp Derivatives And CBD In Animal Products

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If you are trying to navigate the space where hemp products intersects with animal products, it can be unclear as to which authority to turn to for guidance. In the United States, FDA, FTC, DEA and USDA share governance over...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Not So Clean After All: FDA Takes Aim at Manufacturer of OTC Hand Sanitizer Product Line Making Disease Prevention Claims from...

With everyone worrying about the coronavirus and the flu this time of year, it is not surprising that last month the Food and Drug Administration issued a Warning Letter against the manufacturer of a well-established...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Client Alert: FTC and FDA Team Up to Send Warning Letters About Social Media Influencer Posts

Recently, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued joint warning letters to four sellers of e-liquids, the nicotine “juice” used in vaping regarding their use of social media...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

How Much Is Too Much Deference to FDA Warning Letters in Consumer Class Actions?

Consumer class actions involving goods regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) coexist in parallel with FDA enforcement efforts.  Consumers have no private right of action to enforce the Food, Drug, and...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

FDA Scolds Company Claiming to Bake with Love

Where’s the love? Apparently, not at the FDA. On September 22 the FDA issued Warning Letter CMS# 532236 to Nashoba Brook Bakery, of Concord, Mass. Among several infractions cited in the letter was one for the misbranding...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

You Wear It Well (or Do You?): FDA Objects To These Skincare Companies’ Unapproved New Drug Claims

In the 1972 hit, “You Wear it Well,” Rod Stewart sang about a woman and offered the classic line, “Madame Onassis got nothing on you.” The tune came to mind when reading four Warning Letters issued by the Food and Drug...more

Cozen O'Connor

FTC Announces Red Light on Unqualified “Green Approved” Seals

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Updated to clarify that this post is not about Green Seal, Inc. but the environmental seals or certifications warned against in a recent FTC update. Manufacturers of consumer products labeled with unspecified environmental...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"The Future of Government Regulation, Enforcement of Off-Label Promotion"

Three years ago, in United States v. Caronia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) neither prohibits nor criminalizes truthful, nonmisleading speech that...more

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