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The number of CBD extracts coming to market in canna-legal states is growing exponentially, but a new research study has found that the majority of these products are inaccurately labeled. Adjunct assistant professor of psychology Marcel Bonn-Miller and a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania tested the accuracy of these products’ labels by purchasing 84 different CBD products online and conducting a chemical analysis of their contents.
The study, released this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reports that only 31% of the products they tested contained the precise amount of CBD that was advertised on the label. The analysis showed that 26% of the products had less CBD than advertised, while 43% had more. Researchers also discovered that some products were more likely to be labeled accurately than others. About half of the CBD oils were labeled inaccurately, but two-thirds of tinctures and around 90% of vaporization liquids were not labeled correctly.
Bonn-Miller told CNN that he wanted to conduct a “systematic evaluation” of CBD products so that consumers would know exactly what they were purchasing. The…
