Washington, D.C.—The Organic Trade Association (OTA) is asking the organic community to weigh in on an organic check-off program. The program, known as GRO Organic (Generate Results and Opportunity for Organic), will be voluntary and funded by the private sector, according to a statement. Its goals are to promote the...
Washington, D.C.—The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a guidance document regarding nutrition and supplement facts labels, and a draft guidance on serving sizes and other miscellaneous topics. It should be noted that, in the FDA’s words, “guidance documents do not establish legally enforceable responsibilities. Instead, guidances describe our...
Phoenix, AZ -- Sprouts Farmers Market reported $38 million in net income, a 19% increase from the same period in 2017, in its third quarter 2018 earnings report. Other financials saw increases, too. The company reported net sales of $1.3 billion, a 10% increase, driven by comparable store sales growth...
Saskatchewan, Canada -- Algarithm Ingredients announced the company has made a $100,000 annual funding pledge to GOED, the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s. The pledge seats Algarithm on GOED’s Executive Council on Education and Outreach (ECEO), allowing Algarithm to take an active role in determining the direction of...
PepsiCo continues its push into more nutritious foods with the acquisition of plant-based snack food brand Health Warrior. The deal is the first investment by “the Hive, a PepsiCo entity focused on emerging trends and designed to grow smaller brands. Health Warrior, which launched in 2011, will continue to operate...
LAKE SUCCESS, NY -- The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. has found its successor to founder president and CEO Irwin D. Simon, naming veteran consumer packaged foods executive Mark L. Schiller as the company's new president and CEO, effective Nov. 5. Schiller (shown here) brings more than 25 years of executive...
Phoenix, AZ – Sprouts Farmers Market will open 30 new stores in 2019, and seven of them will be during the first three months of the year. This year, Sprouts opened its first stores in the states of Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Washington and Maryland. It did not announce which new...
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...
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