Click on cover image below to enjoy the RidgeCrest Herbals 2018 Almanac for its calendar, trends, specials and tips. A hard copy is also polybagged with every WholeFoods Magazine January 2018 issue. Read a word from our publisher and here's how to get extra print copies before RidgeCrest Herbals runs...
Phoenix, AZ - Sprouts Farmers Market is making its line of fresh, natural and organic products a little more accessible for its customers. The independent natural foods retailer began a new partnership today with Instacart, an online delivery service, and will expand its home delivery service to major markets across...
Irvine, CA - ChromaDex Corporation is expanding. The nutraceutical company devoted to improving the way people age has launched TRU NIAGEN™ in Singapore with its retail partner, Watsons. This is the second Asian market - besides Hong Kong - to offer the dietary supplement. Watsons introduced the supplement in stores...
Austin, TX — As Whole Foods Market continues its transformation under new parent Amazon.com, suppliers have been given notice of what it will cost. According to the Washington Post, an email recently sent to the company’s suppliers, spells out the new system. Under the previous system, suppliers could run in-store...
New Hampton, NY — A new study suggests that the increased use of choline during pregnancy could make a child smarter. According to research recently published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (The FASEB Journal), and conducted at Cornell University by Marie Caudill and her...
Edison, NJ — Serum β-carotene and α-carotene may help protect against Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and Diabetes Retinopathy (DR), according to a new study published in Current Molecular Medicine. In the cross-sectional study conducted in Beijing, China, 272 diabetic retinopathy patients, 190 diabetic patients without retinopathy and 285 healthy patients were...
Lake Success, NY – The Hain Celestial Group cannot find a buyer because the organic food giant has been expanded to include too many brands, according to a story in The New York Post. Veteran deal reporter Josh Kosman says four sources familiar with the situation told him Hain’s been...
NEW YORK — Family-owned Lactalis has agreed to acquire siggi’s, the fast-growing U.S. based maker of Icelandic-style skyr yogurt with “simple ingredients, not a lot of sugar.” Price was not disclosed. CEO and founder Siggi Hilmarsson will continue to lead the company as a standalone operation from its New York...
Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a constituent update announcing it will use enforcement "discretion" in specific provisions in four regulations of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). They include: Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food (AKA...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind the 2013 Obama administration memo saying it would not stand in the way of states that legalize marijuana may scare investors, but should not affect hemp-based businesses or the retailers that sell their products. That’s the opinion of Sean Murphy, founder and publisher...
