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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>81195</law_id><section_number>3.2-5145.1</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-247</reference><reference>3.2-4112</reference><reference>3.2-4116</reference><reference>3.2-5100</reference><reference>4.1-1602</reference><reference>4.1-600</reference><reference>54.1-3401</reference><reference>59.1-200</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Food and Drink; Weights and Measures</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="51">Food and Drink</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="5">Industrial Hemp Extract Intended for Human Consumption</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Food</span>&#x201D; means any article that is intended for human consumption and introduction into commerce, whether the article is simple, mixed, or compound, and all substances or ingredients used in the preparation thereof. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Food</span>&#x201D; does not mean drug as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/54.1-3401/">54.1-3401</a>.
		&#x201C;Industrial hemp&#x201D; means a Cannabis sativa plant that has a concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol that is no greater than that allowed by federal <span class="dictionary">law</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Industrial hemp extract</span>&#x201D; means an extract (i) of industrial hemp, (ii) that is intended for human consumption, and (iii) except as otherwise provided in subsection M of &#xA7;&#xA0;54.1-3442.6, when offered for retail sale, that (a) contains a <span class="dictionary">total tetrahydrocannabinol</span> concentration that is no greater than 0.3 percent and (b) contains either no more than two milligrams of <span class="dictionary">total tetrahydrocannabinol</span> per package or an amount of cannabidiol that is no less than 25 times greater than the amount of <span class="dictionary">total tetrahydrocannabinol</span> per package. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Industrial hemp extract</span>&#x201D; is not a hemp seed-derived ingredient that is approved by the U.S. <span class="dictionary">Food</span> and Drug Administration or is the subject of a generally recognized as safe notice for which the U.S. <span class="dictionary">Food</span> and Drug Administration had no questions.
		&#x201C;Tetrahydrocannabinol&#x201D; means the same as that term is defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/3.2-4112/">3.2-4112</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Total tetrahydrocannabinol</span>&#x201D; means the same as that term is defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/3.2-4112/">3.2-4112</a>.</p></section></text><history>2020, cc. 659, 660; 2023, cc. 744, 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
