The European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) – the trade association that had led the charge on the push for these updates – was calling for all bans on hemp-derived ingredients to be lifted to make way for new INCI entries. It was therefore still liaising with the EC to follow up requests for additional CosIng entries, specifically for CBD derived from hemp roots and hemp flowers.
Victoria Troyano Fernández, communications and advocacy officer at EIHA, told CosmeticsDesign-Europe, it was important to note that these CosIng entries, including the two published today, related to industrial varieties of Cannabis Sativa L. (hemp) that, by definition, contained only