CBDCafe.org is an independent consumer-information publisher. Our editorial policy helps readers inspect CBD labels, lab reports, batch records, product claims, prices, seller terms, public warnings, and current law. We do not provide medical, veterinary, legal, laboratory, or drug-testing advice.
Our Editorial Policy Promise
- We separate what a seller claims from what the available evidence shows.
- We cite original records beside material factual claims.
- We identify missing information as unknown instead of treating it as a positive result.
- We do not publish personal dosing advice, treatment recommendations, medication-interaction tools, or individualized legal answers.
- We disclose affiliate links, supplied products, sponsorships, and other commercial relationships where they may affect a reader’s judgment.
- We correct material errors and date meaningful updates.
What Our Editorial Policy Covers Without Professional Review
Some useful checks do not require a clinician, pharmacist, veterinarian, lawyer, or laboratory scientist. Our editors may publish label reading, certificate-of-analysis literacy, batch matching, price math, seller-term comparisons, document-based Product Passports, and calculators that return arithmetic from user-entered label data.
These pages may explain what a document states and how a reader can verify it. They may not turn document data into a diagnosis, treatment choice, personal intake amount, medication decision, legal opinion, or guarantee.
Editorial Policy for Restricted-Scope Pages
Pages about side effects, unexpected reactions, pregnancy, children, pets, drug testing, or law receive extra controls. They summarize current original sources, state what remains unknown, display the matching warning, and avoid advice based on a reader’s personal facts.
| Page type | Permitted scope | Not permitted |
|---|---|---|
| Health and safety | Accurate summaries of FDA, CDC, NIH, and peer-reviewed evidence | Diagnosis, treatment selection, personal dosing, or medicine changes |
| Drug testing | Product and evidence uncertainty | A promise or estimate that a person will pass |
| Pets | FDA status, evidence limits, storage, and questions for a veterinarian | Product ranking, dose, condition, or treatment advice |
| Law | Current statutes, agency materials, effective dates, and pending proposals kept separate | A legal answer for a person’s purchase, shipment, possession, travel, or case |
Topics We Hold
We do not publish content that needs professional judgment when we do not have the right reviewer and review process. Held topics include personal dose calculators, CBD treatment pages for a disease or condition, medication-interaction databases, veterinary treatment advice, and legal conclusions based on personal facts.
Sources and Evidence
We prefer the original source for the claim being made. This may include enacted law, regulations, court records, FDA, CDC, FTC, USDA, NIH, state agencies, peer-reviewed studies, product labels, matching lab reports, archived seller terms, receipts, and direct observations.
Forums, social posts, reviews, press reports, and trade commentary can reveal reader questions or leads. They are not the sole proof for safety, effectiveness, dosage, or law.
Product Passports
A CBDCafe Product Passport evaluates named documents and observed facts under a published method. Results use Pass, Concern, Unknown, or Not applicable. A Pass applies only to the stated check. It does not mean a product is safe, effective, FDA approved, lawful everywhere, or guaranteed to produce any result. Unknown is not Pass.
AI Assistance
AI tools may help organize sources, compare fields, extract structured data, calculate label math, suggest headings, and flag possible conflicts. AI is not treated as a factual source. Before publication, an editor opens cited sources, checks material claims, verifies names, dates, units, jurisdictions, and arithmetic, removes unsupported statements, and inspects the rendered page.
Authorship and Review Labels
Content is credited to a real author or the CBDCafe Research Desk. We do not invent clinicians, lawyers, scientists, laboratory credentials, reviewers, or first-hand product experience. We do not use “medically reviewed,” “legally reviewed,” or similar language unless a qualified reviewer took part and the review is recorded.
Commercial Independence
CBDCafe.org may earn a commission from some links. Payment, free products, and affiliate status do not change the review method, evidence fields, result labels, or rank. Each commercial relationship is disclosed on the page where it may affect a reader’s judgment.
Editorial Policy Corrections and Updates
We record meaningful factual changes with an updated date. A material correction should identify the old claim, the corrected claim, the date, the reason, and the supporting source. Reader-submitted evidence is treated as a lead and checked before it changes a result.
To report a possible error, email support@cbdcafe.org with the page URL, the statement you are questioning, and a link to the supporting source. Please avoid sending private medical records or other sensitive personal information. See our privacy policy for how we handle contact requests.
Related CBD Cafe Resources
Learn more about how CBD Cafe works, read the site disclaimer and privacy policy, start with CBD Basics, or review CBD Product Quality for warning letters, evidence checks, and reporting resources.
Policy effective: September 2, 2026.