With the Winter Fancy Food Show come and gone, let’s look back on the emerging trends seen at the show as pinpointed by Specialty Food Association’s Trendspotter Panel as well as some representative products. Southeast Asian Influence: Bak Kwa meat snacks by Little Red Dot: Bak Kwa is Singapore style...
According Reuters, Monsanto has filed a lawsuit against California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) and its acting director Lauren Zeise , after the agency announced in September its intent to add glyphosate (brand name Roundup) to the state’s list of cancer-causing chemicals. California law requires the state to...
Arlington, VA—PBS aired a Frontline segment on “Supplements and Safety” on Jan. 19 suggesting that supplements are unsafe, make fraudulent claims and are unregulated. Correspondent Gillian Findlay focused on several extreme cases involving bad industry players that functioned outside the bounds of the law. For instance, she focused on a...
Boston, MA—A group of researchers from various institutions including Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Brown University and Harvard Medical School have published a study in JAMA Ophthalmology suggesting that certain nutrients may lower the risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The researchers analyzed data previously collected...
Beloit, WI—New data suggest that kids taking a branded beta glucan are healthier than other children. For three months, researchers from H&J CRO International Inc. in Beijing, China, gave 156 healthy children (ages one to four) one of three regimens: either 75 mg of a proprietary yeast beta 1,3/1,6 glucan...
Woodland, CA-based Western Foods is now SQF Level 2 Certified. National Enzyme Company of Forsyth, MO, expanded its facility to create additional office space for its quality control, information technology and marketing groups. The new 3,200-ft2 building replaces offices that were damaged in a fire in 2015. Ethical Naturals Inc.
Litehouse Foods, Sandpoint, ID, earned the Safe Quality Food (SQF) level-3 certification for its Simply Artisan Reserve manufacturing plant. SQF level 3 is the most rigorous Global Food Safety Initiative certification, requiring more comprehensive documentation of safety and quality management in addition to level-2 certification criteria. “By achieving the highest...
GOED, the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s, of Salt Lake City, UT, published a 500-page report about omega-3 raw materials. The report includes breakdowns by every omega-3 oil source, end product application and geography. The Ingredient Market Report is available for $5,000. In other news, GOED updated its...
Chocolove of Boulder, CO, announced that Mark Bruno is now the firm’s Eastern sales manager. NattoPharma ASA, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, made several staff changes. Daniel Rosenbaum, formerly the company’s COO, is now CEO of NattoPharma. Former CEO Hogne Vik is assuming the role of chief medical officer. NattoPharma also...
In my early days in natural foods wholesaling, when we were making sales calls on small but rapidly growing independent natural products stores, we would talk about the concept of first giving the retailer warm fuzzies. Warm fuzzies are comforting words and phrases designed to put the buyer at ease.
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