Even with its approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeming imminent, genetically-engineered (GE) AquAdvantage salmon has been dealt a major blow. Several large national retailers made commitments to deny AquAdvantage, produced by Massachusetts-based AquaBounty Technologies, entrance into their stores. Chains within both the natural and mainstream channels,...
Providence, RI-based United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) has acquired full equity in Trudeau Foods, a Minnesota-based natural, organic and specialty foods distributor. Trudeau Foods will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of UNFI, and the deal affords UNFI the ability to expand in the markets of Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin and...
Omaha, NE—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) informed ConAgra Foods, Inc. that it will allow a qualified health claim linking whole grains with reduced risk of type-2 diabetes. The decision comes after the company petitioned the agency in 2012 to use a similar claim in its own wording. The...
Washington, D.C.—A controversial provision that critics named the “Monsanto Protection Act” was stopped in its tracks when it was removed from the spending resolution Congress was engrossed with in late September. U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) successfully pushed to have the item in question, Sec. 735,...
A new report on the specialty food market presents a bounty of information on this broad and growing category. The report was based on consumer responses to a variety of survey questions about their buying and other habits. It defined specialty foods as those that are distinctive and of premium...
Washington, D.C.—Over 150 companies and organizations sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack calling for better oversight of the experimental field trials used to test genetically engineered (GE) crops. The action was spurred by the high-profile discovery in May of unapproved GE wheat in an...
Columbia, MO—As certain types of synthetic nanoparticles have made their way into applications from water treatment to food packaging to pesticides over the past few years, a debate has ensued over the potential for contamination, and the health risks to humans in case it does occur. A recent study at...
Through October 11, Rudi’s Organic Bakery, Boulder, CO, is accepting votes for its Say Cheese photo contest, where people shared photos of their children enjoying sandwiches with Rudi’s bread. The winner will be featured in a Rudi’s ad and receive a Whole Foods Market gift card. All contributing goat...
With the June 2013 expansion of Amazon.com, Inc.’s AmazonFresh program to the Los Angeles market, the resurgent business model of home grocery delivery now seems to be a force with which the food retail world must contend. After fits and starts of success for the idea earlier in the Internet...
A research project is underway to assess the potential for alternatives to antibiotic treatments for fire blight disease, which afflicts apple and pear orchards. Funded by The Organic Center, the project will be published as a report written for farmers and will review methods for controlling fire blight holistically.
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