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Is there THC in Dr. Bronner's products?Updated a year ago

Even hemp seed oil pressed from thoroughly cleaned seeds of low-THC industrial hemp varieties may contain minuscule trace amounts of THC, typically not more than 10 ppm, or not more than 0.001%. Since hemp seed oil is used in Dr. Bronner’s soaps at less than 1%, any trace THC concentrations in our soap would be no greater than 0.00001%.

In industrial hemp, THC is present only in trace amounts in the flowers and leaves of the plant. The US Federal Government, under Section 7606 of the 2014 Farm Bill, defines industrial hemp as “Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.”

Insignificant trace amounts of THC may be found in hemp seed oil, especially if there was trace resin from the flowers still on the hemp seeds when they were pressed into oil. Dr. Bronner’s currently sources organic hemp seed oil from suppliers within the United States. We require a Certificate of Analysis (COA) from all suppliers to validate that each batch of material is within the acceptable US Federal Government limits for THC before it is accepted for use in production, and we sample our incoming raw materials and verify the test results claimed on COAs at our discretion. Per our supplier COAs on file and independent laboratory test results, none of the material we have received has demonstrated trace THC above Dr. Bronner’s internal quality limits of 10 parts per million (ppm) or the US Federal Government’s acceptable limits.

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