San Francisco, CA—Judge Suzanne Ramos Bolanos upheld the ruling that linked Bayer’s Roundup to Dewayne Johnson’s non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, but decreased the punitive damages from $289 million to $78.5 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. If Johnson agrees to the reduction by December 7th, no new trial will be necessary.
A study published on October 22nd, 2018, in JAMA Internal Medicine found that people who consume high amounts of organic food have a smaller cancer risk. The study was performed on 68,946 French adults between May 10th, 2009, and November 30th, 2016. 78% of the participants were female, the average...
Organic Valley has found a solution that will allow it to use 100% sustainable energy by 2019, according to New Hope Network. They collaborated with their local utilities and developer, OneEnergy Renewables, to form a community solar partnership that New Hope calls a “model to emulate.” OneEnergy will break ground...
Washington, DC—The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has released their 2018 Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements, and it shows increased usage of and trust in supplements. The survey included a national sample of 2,004 adults aged 18 and over, 1,504 of which were considered supplement users. The poll has a...
The global nutrition group, Glanbia, has acquired SlimFast, a weight-loss company, for $350 million. The company said that SlimFast will complement its performance-nutrition portfolio and help them target lifestyle consumers and the $8 billion weight-management nutrition market. Florida-based SlimFast was established in 1977, and makes multiple weight-management and...
Parent company of LaCroix sparkling water, National Beverage Corp., is facing a lawsuit that alleges its product contains non-natural and synthetic compounds, which would be opposite of how the company markets the drink. The class action lawsuit was filed on Oct. 1 by Beaumont Costales, a Chicago law firm, on...
Charlotte, NC. -- The Fresh Market opened a new store in south Charlotte that brings it back to its roots as a European and specialty market. It’s an important event for the company, which closed 15 stores earlier this year under CEO Larry Appel, who came onboard a year ago.
Washington, DC—The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has removed seven synthetic flavoring substances from the Food Additives List, due to a petition submitted by eleven separate groups working to eliminate these chemicals for health and environmental reasons. Six of the substances—the synthetically-derived versions of benzophenone, ethyl acrylate, eugenyl methyl ether,...
Expo West and Expo East are the two largest natural products trade shows in the world. Hundreds—and in the case of Expo West, thousands—of exhibitors show their wares in categories ranging from ingredients and packaging to foods, snacks, supplements and skin care. And everything in between. Having just returned from...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vote Hemp, the nation’s leading grassroots hemp advocacy organization working to change state and federal laws to allow commercial hemp farming, celebrates the passage of SB 1409 in California, which legalizes hemp farming in the state. A major victory for the hemp industry, Governor Brown signed Vote...
