270+
FDA warning letters sent to CBD companies in 2023
$5K
Average cost of a compliance correction vs. $50K+ for legal defense
72hrs
Typical payment processor response time after an FDA complaint
98%
Of violations come from product page copy, not product formulation
Website Tool

CBD Compliance Checker

Your product descriptions are probably illegal. You just don't know it yet — but the FDA does.

CBD merchants operate in a legal grey zone. The FDA strictly prohibits claiming that CBD products can diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent any disease or condition. But the line between "this product promotes calm" (allowed) and "this product relieves anxiety" (prohibited) isn't always obvious — especially when you're writing 200 product descriptions at once. The CBD Compliance Checker scans your pages against the FDA's actual language standards and flags every violation before a regulator does it for you.

What happens when you get a warning letter: The FDA sends a public letter detailing every violation. Your payment processor (Stripe, PayPal, Shopify Payments) sees it. Your ad accounts flag. Your bank gets nervous. One letter can shut down a $500K/year business in 30 days. Prevention costs a fraction of a percent of that.
Users who act on our reports: Our users typically find and fix 12–20 compliance violations per scan in under an hour — violations that could otherwise cost $50K+ to defend. The relief of knowing your pages are clean is worth the scan alone.

What the Checker Catches

  • FDA-restricted language: "cures," "treats," "prevents," "heals," "reverses," and 200+ trigger phrases from our compliance database
  • Implied health claims — language that implies therapeutic benefit without using explicit disease terms, which the FDA still flags
  • Age-gating implementation: verifies the age gate fires on landing and meets state-specific requirements
  • Product labeling language against FTC and FDA labeling rules for CBD product categories
  • Line-by-line compliance report: the specific violation, the regulatory reference, and a compliant rewrite suggestion for each flagged phrase
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We got an FDA warning letter in 2022. Since then I check every new product page with CBD Compliance Checker before it goes live. Three violations caught in the first month alone — any one of them could have been another letter.

Derek W.
CBD eCommerce Founder, Wellness brand

How It Works

Enter Your Page URL

Paste any product page, homepage, or blog post URL. Works on any website — Shopify, WooCommerce, WordPress, or custom-built.

We Scan the Full Page

Our crawler reads all page text — product descriptions, testimonials, metadata, and structured data. Not just visible body copy.

Get Your Compliance Report

Receive a line-by-line report: every flagged phrase, the regulation it violates, and a compliant replacement you can use immediately.

Pricing

Free
$0 per scan

Scan one page. Get your compliance score and the top violations. No account required.


  • 1 page scan, no account needed
  • Compliance score (0–100)
  • Top 5 violations flagged
  • Violation category breakdown
Scan a Page Free
Pro — Coming Soon
$? /month

Full site scanning, bulk page audits, automated monitoring, PDF reports, and compliant rewrite suggestions. Join the waitlist.


  • Unlimited page scans
  • Full violation reports + rewrite suggestions
  • Age-gate verification
  • Bulk URL scanning
  • PDF compliance certificates
  • Automated weekly monitoring

What We Check For

Our database is built from FDA warning letters, FTC enforcement actions, and state-level CBD regulations — updated quarterly.

Disease Claims

Language claiming to diagnose, cure, treat, mitigate, or prevent any disease. The FDA's primary enforcement area.

Therapeutic Claims

Implied drug-like claims that suggest clinical or therapeutic effect even without using disease terminology.

Age Verification

State-specific age gate requirements. Some states require 21+, others 18+. We check what fires and when.

Labeling Language

Product name, description, and suggested use language that must meet FTC standards for substantiation.

Testimonial Compliance

Customer reviews that make drug claims are your legal liability too — even when you didn't write them.

Disclosure Requirements

FDA-required statements, third-party testing disclosures, and certificate of analysis availability requirements.

Run Your First Free Scan Right Now

Takes 60 seconds. No account required. Find out if your pages are compliant before you need a lawyer to find out for you.