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Hemp pet food hits the market
04-12-06 | ABC.Net.au

A Tasmanian company has obtained the first state or territory licence to use hemp in a pet food product.

Hemp is banned in food for human consumption in Australia, unlike most other western countries.

Industrial hemp contains very low levels of psychotropic chemicals and is used in products like paper and clothing.

Business owner Ian Rochfort says he has been fighting bureaucracy for years for the right to harvest hemp, which will be used in the company's dog biscuits.

"This has taken our company probably about seven years to come to this stage, whereby we've manufactured this product and we've now - for the first time - got it into the market place," he said.

Tasmania's Hemp Co-op says it is outrageous that industrial hemp can be harvested for use in food for pets, but not humans.

Brandt Teale from the Co-op says the restrictions on hemp seeds are more severe than those for poppy seeds.

"Because it's hemp seed, we can't even tell you where it's held, we can't tell you where it's processed, we can't tell you where it's turned into dog food," he said.

"It would be illegal for us to do that and that's a really strange part of the law."

The dog biscuits are not for human consumption.

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