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.
Monrovia, CA—Naked Juice Co., owned by PepsiCo, will be removing the term “all natural” from its fruit and vegetable juice smoothie products, after it chose to settle a class-action lawsuit for $9 million. By claiming its products are all natural and free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the lawsuit alleged,...
A federal judge put the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the spot recently, asking the agency to decide whether genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can be present in food products labeled “natural.” The request from U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers put on hold a class action suit against...
Phoenix, AZ—Sprouts Farmers Market, which operates over 150 stores and was the 2013 WholeFoods Retailer of the Year, officially set the terms of its initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock exchange. The company seeks to pay down $247.6 million in debt and other costs through the sale of 18.5...
Boulder, CO-based GoodBelly has redesigned the packaging for its line of family-sized quarts of probiotic juice. The new package is predominantly black and is designed to emphasize the product more clearly. New Seasons Market, a 12-store chain in the Portland, OR-Vancouver, WA area and 2009 WholeFoods Retailer of...
Washington, D.C.—The Non-GMO Project Verified label, which has become more pervasive in recent months, has been approved for meat and liquid egg products by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It becomes the first non-genetically modified organism (non-GMO) label...
Minneapolis, MN—Furthering the trend of big-box retailers entering the rapidly growing natural and organic foods market, Target Corp. has begun to roll out a store brand of organic and natural foods called Simply Balanced. The first products in the line include drinks and snacks, but the retailer has plans...
Patna, India—The deaths of at least 22 schoolchildren in a rural Indian village were found by autopsies to be caused by toxic pesticide residue on a midday meal they were served, the Associated Press reported. Although results expected to determine the precise chemicals involved were still pending, a government official confirmed...
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