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This week we talk to Sandra Marquardt from Textile Exchange about how to keep hemp a sustainable crop by designing new systems.

Lawmakers and stakeholders assembled for a congressional hearing on July 27 to highlight how FDA’s refusal to regulate CBD is threatening consumer access to safe products.

House Republican leaders have been struggling to get the votes to move a partisan fiscal 2024 funding bill for USDA and FDA ahead of the long summer recess, raising fresh doubts about how soon lawmakers can start working on the farm bill this fall. 

A new federal bill would carve out an exemption for CBD to make trade in the products fully legal.

The House Committee on Oversight intends to hold a hearing next week related to FDA regulation of hemp.