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Noise from the North!
Although the FINOLA variety of hemp remains listed in the EU Common Catalogue, the EU subsidy was removed for the industrial cultivation of FINOLA after the hot and dry summer of 2006, when a few poorly controlled field samples tested over the 0.2% THC limit in Finland, Sweden and the UK. The following articles describe key features of ignorance and poor administration of this complex regulation at various levels of governmant. It is still a wonder why FINOLA has remained on the appoved list of industrial hemp varieties in Canada, where it has averaged less than 0.15% THC since 1998.
Read on to learn how persistent complaining for a just cause eventualy dose gets results in the EU!
Noise from the North #1 (228 kB pdf) with Amaducci et. al. 2008 and EU Regulation 796 2004 posted 10.10.2008
Noise from the North #2 (116 kB pdf) with a detailed publication by Dr. JC Callaway 2008, posted 15 Oct 2008
Noise from the North #3 (300 kB pdf) with articles on CBD/THC ratio and CBD pharmacology, posted 23 Oct 2008
Noise from the North #4 (60 kB pdf) with EU Proposal to exclude Finola, posted 3 Nov 2008
Noise from the North #5 (92 kB pdf) Evidence shows Finola THC to be below EU limit, posted 15 March 2010
BREAKING NEWS ON THE SUBSIDY SITUATION FOR FINOLA IN THE EU as of 15 March 2010
In 2008, The EU Commission decided to reconsider new THC results for FINOLA. Such results were recently obtained from two well controlled, independent agricultural trials in 2009 by Agrifood Research Finland (MTT). This research was funded by the Agricultural Ministry of Finland (MMM), and now clearly shows that the FINOLA THC "problems" were due to human error through late sampling. These agricultural trials will be repeated in 2010, and MMM will present these results to the EU Commission at their next meeting on 15 November 2010. At that point, the EU Commission will decided if FINOLA will once again enjoy the agricultural subsidy that is so freely given to other industrial food crops in the EU.
Additional information will be posted here to keep you informed on the progress (or lack of it).
Other Free Information on hemp in the EU:
Click HERE for EU regulation 796/2004, which describes the methodologies that are supposed to be followed for determing the correct sampling time for industrial hemp and analyzing for THC (288 kB pdf)
Click HERE for information on EU regulation 796/2004, and how this has been so poorly understood and mostly misapplied in the EU for the evaluation of THC in Finola (2.64 mB pdf)
Useful publications and scientific information on Finola hemp, hempseed and hempseed oil.
Just click on the blue text to download these articles for your personal educational purposes:
Click HERE for a new chapter on Hempseed Oil (36 A4 pages, 524 kB pdf), by JC Callaway and DW Pate. This revised version was published in 2009 as Chapter 5 (pp. 185-213) In: Gourmet and Health-Promoting Specialty Oils, Robert A. Moreau and Afaf Kamal-Eldin (Eds.), AOCS Press, Urbana Il, ISBN 978-1-893997-97-4.
Click HERE for a short new article by JC Callaway (2.2 mB pdf), entitled "Hempseed oil in a nut shell", published in the March 2010 Volume 21(3) of inform; a monthly publication of the American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS).
Click on the title below for an artilce on hempseed nutrition (176 kB pdf):
Click on the title below for an article that carefully descibes the inherent problems in the sampling and analysis of industrial oilseed hemp crops for THC (164 kB pdf):
(We hope to eventually post PDFs of these older articles):
Hemp as food at high latitudes. Callaway JC. Journal of Industrial Hemp. 2002, volume 7(1), pages 105-117.
Formation of trans-fatty acids in heated hemp seed oil: A rebuttal. Callaway JC. Journal of the International Hemp Association. 1998, volume 5(2), pages 106-108.
Update on FIN-314. Laakkonen TT and Callaway JC. Journal of the International Hemp Association. 1998, volume 5(1), pages 34-35.
Occurrence of " omega -3" stearidonic acid ( cis -6,9,12,15-octadecatetraenoic acid) in hemp (Cannabis staiva L.) seed. Callaway JC , Tennilä T, Pate DW. Journal of the International Hemp Association. 1997, volume 3(2), pages 61-63.
Cultivation of Cannabis fiber varieties in Central Finland. Callaway JC and Hemmilä AM. Journal of the International Hemp Association. 1996, volume 3(1), pages 29-31.
Cultivation of Cannabis oil seed varieties in Finland. Callaway JC and Laakkonen TT. Journal of the International Hemp Association. 1996, volume 3(1), pages 32-34.
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