Ingredients

Consumer research reveals a new ranking of the ingredients that are "hot" right now.

Regulatory uncertainty. Class-action lawsuits. Investor impatience. COVID-19 distractions. All that, and now a coalition of drug warriors and major CPG brands enters the frothy CBD discussion. Are its motives to build the business—or shut it down?

As COVID-19 continues to disrupt the conventional food supply, natural products brands have found ways to support distributors, customers and consumers.

Hemp for food was cemented in 2004 against the DEA, then reaffirmed in 2018 in the farm bill. It's not all about CBD, y'know.

McMaster University researchers say resistance exercise is more effective in building muscle, however.

The novel coronavirus sprung out of China, but now the spread has disrupted manufacturing and logistics around the globe. Iowa farmer Andrew Pittz says it's time to bring the supply chain home.

CBD brands often point to hemp as a cash crop that can help keep family farms solvent, but other say that the agricultural economics will favor farmers who already have the equipment and capital. A looming glut in raw material may also doom early...

In a piece for Nutrition Business Journal's recently published Hemp & CBD Guide 2.0, Council for Responsible Nutrition President and CEO Steve Mister shared the top concerns CBD poses for the supplement industry.

That problems with purity and potency in CBD products haven't gotten much notice from consumers doesn't mean those problems aren't going to emerge as an issue. Matthew Kind talks about CannaInsider's Transparency Badge as one solution.

An FTC official signaled his agency will take more aggressive enforcement action against marketers of CBD in the future, moving beyond warning letters and instead issuing civil investigative demands.