Recap on Previous California Senate Committee Hearing on Health

· The Kratom Informational Hearing was a critical inflection point for the California Legislature to better understand the safety profile of natural kratom leaf and extract products that truly are helping people to manage their health and well-being, and the importance of access by consumers to these safely formulated products.

· Importantly, it exposed the imminent threat posed by chemically manipulated 7-OH products and the dangerous product formulations the significantly increase the danger to consumers by an industry committed to mislead consumers that their products are just kratom.

· Finally, the dogmatic and tone-deaf California Department of Public Health continued to justify their efforts to interfere with consumer access to safety formulated, appropriately labeled, and age restricted natural kratom leaf and extract products based solely on their extreme interpretation of the application of federal and state law on kratom products.

The American Kratom Association (AKA) will continue its efforts to encourage the California Legislature to protect access to safe kratom products for consumers and require the Department of Public Health to adhere to the regulatory requirements of the Kratom Consumer Protection Act.