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EFSA Sets Safe Daily CBD at 2mg While UK Allows 10mg
The European Food Safety Authority and the UK Food Standards Agency have split over safe daily CBD limits, proposing 2mg and 10mg caps respectively. The divergence comes as both agencies assess novel food applications amid concerns over long-term liver impact. It leaves European supplement makers facing drastically lower potency thresholds than British brands.
The European Food Safety Authority and the UK Food Standards Agency have split over safe daily CBD limits, proposing 2mg and 10mg caps respectively. The divergence comes as both agencies assess novel food applications amid concerns over long-term liver impact. It leaves European supplement makers facing drastically lower potency thresholds than British brands.
The architecture take
Two milligrams of CBD is roughly what you get by waving a dropper near an open window. Most clinical trials tracking anxiety, sleep, or social stress start testing effects at 200mg or 300mg, while standard retail tinctures deliver 25mg to 50mg per serving. At 2mg per day, the European Food Safety Authority is essentially regulating CBD into homeopathic territory based on ultra-cautious modeling around liver enzymes. The UK Food Standards Agency settled on 10mg last year, which was already low enough to panic drink formulators, but EFSA just went five times lower. Regulators are obsessing over potential hepatic accumulation while largely ignoring why people buy the compound in the first place: to dial back an overactive sympathetic state. I suspect European brands will simply pivot toward microdosed sodas where consumers expect placebo anyway. If you rely on high-dose oils to settle your baseline before bed, expect formulas on continental shelves to get watered down fast.