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Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 10 March 2021

Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Questions (912)

Gino Kenny

Question:

912. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if Ireland is the only EU member state with an existing hemp food industry which continues to use criminal drugs laws to control trace amounts of THC which is not controlled within the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13160/21]

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Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 , Article 2, the Definition of “food” states that “food shall not include narcotic or psychotropic substances within the meaning of the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971”.

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