Washington, D.C. - The Organic Trade Association (OTA) wants to prevent and detect fraud in the global organic industry. A year in the making, the OTA will launch the three month pilot program this June, according to an industry press release. It is composed of 48 OTA members – called the...
South Plainfield, NJ — WholeFoods Magazine chose Springfield, MO-based MaMa Jean’s Natural Market as its 2018 Retailer of the Year. The women-owned MaMa Jean’s was established in 2002 by Susie Farbin and Diana Hicks. They named it after their mothers: “MaMa” Loweta Hicks and Jean Farbin, with the goal of...
Cincinnati, OH and Chicago, IL - Less than a week after announcing its plan to partner with and gain exclusive rights to Ocado, the U.K. robotics-automated online grocery fulfillment service, Kroger is making headlines again. This time, Kroger has announced its acquisition of Home Chef, one of the country's largest...
Dyer, IN — Long-time industry stalwart Jeffrey Van Hecke passed away suddenly on Monday, May 14 at the age of 52. Van Hecke spent 18 years as national sales manager of Yerba Prima until last year. Since then, he began his own venture with his business partner Peter Finkle called...
The American Conference Institute in collaboration with the Council for Responsible Nutrition is hosting the Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Forum on Dietary Supplements which will be taking place at New York City in the Intercontinental Time Square from June 18-20. It is a time for transition for the industry with...
Langen, Germany — Sabinsa Corporation has named Dr. Umar Jan resident directory of Sabinsa Europe, GmbH. He has been working for the company the previous four years, as prokurist [sic] and technical sales manager, where he was responsible for scientific aspects of the sales department, describing Sabinsa’s portfolio of products...
New research conducted by a group of researchers from Faculty of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia and Menoufia Medical School, Egypt demonstrates the potential of palm-based tocotrienols as as a neuroprotective and antioxidant agent in chronic cerebral hypoperfusion-induced neurodegeneration. Researchers used rats that received 2-vessel occlusion (2VO) which induces neuronal...
Boise, ID — Boise-based Impact Group, a leading sales and marketing agency that provides services to more than 700 consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands will acquire three independent food brokerage companies in Minnesota and Wisconsin: Impact Sales & Associates, Ritt-Beyer & Weir (RBW), and WJ Pence. The additions will increase Impact...
Tokyo based Kaneka Corporation acquired a 34.8% share of AB-Biotics (ABB), a Barcelona based biotech company focusing on research, development, and distribution of its own products using lactic acid bacteria. Kaneka has also established a license agreement with AB-Biotics to grant Kaneka exclusive rights for production and sales of ABB’s...
Hadley, MA — Delta-tocotrienol from annatto decreased biomarkers associated with fatty liver, suggests a published clinical study in patients diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). A recent study conducted at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Pakistan, and published in the Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, adds new data...
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