Ascent Industries Corp. Provides Health Canada Update and Announces Appointment of Interim CEO
Ascent Industries Corp. Provides Health Canada Update and Announces Appointment of Interim CEO |
[21-November-2018] |
VANCOUVER, Nov. 21, 2018 /CNW/ - Further to Ascent Industries Corp.'s (CSE: ASNT) ("Ascent" or the "Company") September 27, 2018 press release, the Company reports that Health Canada (or the "Agency") has completed its review of the information submitted by the Company in response to the suspension of the Canadian producer's licence and dealer's licence issued by the Agency to Agrima Botanicals Corp ("Agrima"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.
Health Canada has advised the responses were not satisfactory to lift the suspension and has issued a letter to Ascent that it intends to revoke Agrima's licences. In turn, the Company intends to exercise its right to be heard under the Cannabis Act and Cannabis Regulations in order to maintain its licences. Should the Company not be successful in this hearing process, the licences could be revoked. Health Canada's review is focused on the period during which the Company was privately held. Health Canada asserts that unauthorized activities with cannabis took place under the Company's ACMPR license during this period. The Board of Directors has accepted the resignations of Philip Campbell, Reid Parr and James Poelzer, as officers and directors of Ascent, who were the persons directing the Company at the time. The Company has undertaken additional material actions to resolve this issue:
"We are fully committed to remedying this situation with Health Canada, and ensuring that Ascent operates at the highest level of the industry's best practices. " says Jordan, Interim CEO. "The Independent Committee of the Board and I are giving this issue our full attention in order to get Ascent back to its strong growth path to build more capacity, grow our employment numbers, and expand our partnerships in the local community as soon as we can." About Ascent Industries Corp. THE CANADIAN SECURITIES EXCHANGE (THE "CSE") HAS NEITHER APPROVED NOR DISAPPROVED THE CONTENTS OF THIS PRESS RELEASE. NEITHER THE CSE OR ITS MARKET REGULATOR (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THE POLICIES OF THE CSE) ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE. CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION: This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. In this news release, forward-looking statements relate, among other things, to Ascent's expectations on the reinstatement of the Licences. Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results and future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: the risk that the hearing will not be successful and Health Canada will revoke the Licences or continue the Suspension for an indefinite period of time; the Company may be subject to sanctions (monetary or otherwise), litigation risk and other regulatory and legislative risk; and general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release. Except as required by law, Ascent assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law. SOURCE Ascent Industries | ||
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