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What Happens if the Licensing Board Doesn’t Approve My Application?
by evansfox | Jun 7, 2019 | General Business, Restaurants & Bar, Retail Liquor License
If your application for a liquor license came back, disapproved, there are steps that you can take to try and reverse the negative decision. You have four main options: Reconsideration, a disapproval hearing, an Article 78 proceeding in the Supreme Court, and...
Getting Totally Wasted on Waste
by evansfox | Jun 5, 2019 | General Business, Restaurants & Bar
What a wasteful, world could look like if we got drunk off our scraps. By: Brian Ireland What was the last meal you ate? Did you do your civic duty and lick your plate or bowl clean? Did you make sure not a single spec of sustenance went to waste? Probably not. I mean...
TTB Proposed Labelling Rules Don’t Meet Constitutional Muster
by evansfox | May 30, 2019 | Brewery & Cidery, Copyright, Craft Beverage Branding, Government
The TTB recently published proposed regulations for alcoholic beverage labels and is accepting public comments through June 26, 2019. According to the TTB, these new rules will streamline TTB review of labels in the COLA process. Despite an attempt to incorporate...
Adulterated Dietary Supplements – A Checklist for Complying with Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) for Dietary Supplements
by evansfox | May 22, 2019 | General Business, Permit, Tips For the Entrepreneur
Complying with Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) for Dietary Supplements is required for any nutritional supplements that are prepared, packed or stored by a manufacturer or distributor. This is about producing safe products that are consistently...
Nutrition label exemption for CBD supplements produced by small businesses
by evansfox | May 20, 2019 | CBD
There are two exemptions that tend to apply. The first requires no filing, just that your records document you qualify if inspected. That exemption is for businesses selling less than $50,000 annually of foods or dietary supplements or less than $500,000 in total...
What not to say on product labels or website (including customer testimonials) for cbd, bitters and other nutritional supplements
by evansfox | May 16, 2019 | Brewery & Cidery, CBD
Statements like those below on nutritional supplement labels and websites have received FDA regulatory enforcement for being unapproved new drugs because the nutritional supplements were sold as therapeutic agents intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation,...
Workplace bullying and what an employer needs to know
by evansfox | May 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
What does an employer do when an employee reports that he or she was being shoved at work by another employee and that it is a recurring situation that has been going on for a while? The question raised by the facts described is whether it would be deemed workplace...
When should you add CBD during the brewing process?
by evansfox | May 10, 2019 | Brewery & Cidery, CBD
Tara Leo wrote an interesting article for the Craft Brewing Business blog entitled “Here’s a quick overview on the process of extracting cannabis to infuse in beer.” (It was published on April 17, 2019.) It answered some common questions about the process for making a...
Current Status of Trademark Law & Cannabis
by evansfox | May 8, 2019 | CBD
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) refuses to register marks for goods and/or services that show a clear violation of federal law, regardless of the legality of the activities under state law. Since cannabis is still a Schedule I listed drug...
PATENTING YOUR CBD OR CANNABIS INVENTION
by evansfox | May 2, 2019 | Buying/Selling a Business, CBD, General Business, Patent
Patents on illegal goods and services are not precluded from patent protection in thesame way that federal trademarks are unavailable. Patents simply do not face thisrestriction and are not by their very nature beyond the reach of goods or services...
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