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...
I once had a wart on my finger, and a good natural products retailer friend of mine suggested liquid selenium, which cleared it up within days. My business has warts, too. My desk can be messy, I am behind on my reading and there are many more opportunities to take...
In a copy of the fifth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) obtained by Reuters, scientists upped the likelihood that human activities are causing global warming to 95%. The United Nations report was due to be officially released sometime in September 2013. The 95% figure is...
Coral Springs, FL—Tunies Natural Grocery and Vitamin Supercenter, the largest store of its kind in Florida, celebrated its 20th anniversary this September. Founder and original owner, Al Forman, opened Tunies in 1993 with the goal of creating a store that would allow healthy living to be affordable for everyone. The...
According to new numbers from SPINS, Natural Vitality of Austin, TX, experienced more growth (36%) over the past year than any of the top 15 companies. Natural Calm Organic Lemon (8 oz) is now the second best-selling SKU out of 7,631 items, and several of the firm’s products remain...
Nathaly Battifora joined Nutratech, Inc. of West Caldwell, NJ, as a sales representative. Former Illinois assistant attorney general Saira Alikhan is now part of the litigation team at Amin Talati, LLC of Chicago, IL. Anurag Pande, Ph.D., vice president of scientific affairs at Sabinsa Corp. of West Windsor, NJ,...
A child’s smile is one of the most beautiful things on Earth. And that is exactly what we saw as we traveled 13,000 feet up in the Andes of Peru where non-profit organization, Vitamin Angels, was observing distribution of their prenatal and children’s multivitamins. Children in these communities walk at...
Singapore—International researchers at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and Duke University School of Medicine have found that increased caffeine intake may be beneficial to those with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The study, which was recently published in the journal Hepatology, followed researchers who fed mice a high-fat diet. They then...
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