WholeFoods Magazine Staff

The editorial team at WholeFoods Magazine has decades of experiences reporting on natural products and dietary supplement industry news, trends, and more. This national business-to-business magazine has been published continuously for more than 40 years (the magazine was founded in 1977, and has been owned by Wainer Finest Communications since 1984). It is the longest-tenured media outlet of its kind in the natural products industry. The editorial focus at WholeFoods Magazine is, and always has been, on informing and educating members of the natural products industry.

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HP Ingredients Celebrates Growth By Giving Back to Vitamin Angels

April 26, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Bradenton, FL – In a move that defines the term “giving back,” HP Ingredients announces it made a donation of $10,000 to Vitamin Angels’ to support its new Global Prenatal Campaign, whose goal is to “eliminate newborn mortality around childbirth due to vitamin deficiency disease by 2030.” According to HP...

[REPLAY] 40th Annual Independent Retailer Survey and Outlook Webinar

April 26, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]WholeFoods Magazine editor-in-chief Laurie Petersen along with Jay Jacobowitz, WholeFoods merchandising editor and president/founder of Retail Insights discuss the annual retailer survey and the outlook for natural product retailers with the continued growth of ecommerce and other disruptions in the industry.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/jN4mEpsL45A"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

Industry Applauds Legislation to Empower DEA’s Regulation of SARMs

April 26, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Washington, D.C. - Late last night, Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., introduced bipartisan legislation that would enable the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to better enforce selective androgen receptor modulators, otherwise known as SARMs. The SARMs Control Act of 2018 builds on the success of the Designer Anabolic...

Vitamin K2 Association Expanding Globally

April 26, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Spring, TX – The Vitamin K2 Association is working to promote and protect the vitamin K2 category, by furthering its message globally and expanding its board. In a recent press release, the association announced that leading vitamin K2 manufacturer Kappa Bioscience has joined them as a founding executive board member.

Balchem’s VitaCholine Now Non-GMO Project Verified

April 25, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

New Hampton, NY – Balchem Corp. has achieved Non-GMO Project Verification for its VitaCholine brand choline chloride and choline bitartrate ingredient product lines. The Non-GMO Project is a mission-driven nonprofit organization offering a third-party non-GMO verification program. “Third party assessments of product integrity are important to consumers, particularly those associated...

2018 Natural Products Day: Keeping Up Appearances at the Capitol

April 25, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Washington, D.C. — On April 18, the Natural Products Association (NPA) held its annual Natural Products Day, during which NPA members lobby their representatives and senators on behalf of the natural products industry. The “asks” this year were similar to last year’s, with a few new additions to the agenda.

NC Industrial Hemp Pilot Program May Move Forward

April 25, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Raleigh, NC - North Carolina’s Industrial Hemp Pilot Program is one step closer to fruition. Last week, Bob Crumley, CEO and president of Founders Hemp and chairman of the board for the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association (NCIHA), Marty Clemons, president of the NCIHA, Gary Sikes, president of Bio-Regen, and Blake Butler,...

Listen: What's Selling at Green Acres Health Food

April 24, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

The Natural View drops in on Green Acres Health Food Store in Piscataway, N.J. In this wide-ranging conversation with the manager and owner (conducted on 4/20), we talk about CBD oil sales, the benefits of opening a juice bar, how to compete in the shadow of two new Whole Foods...

P&G To Buy Consumer Healthcare Unit From Germany's Merck

April 23, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Cincinnati, OH - Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) has agreed to acquire the consumer-health business from Germany’s Merck KGaA. The $4.4 billion deal adds vitamins and food supplements to the company's lineup of over-the-counter medicines, which include Vicks, Metamucil, Pepto-Bismol, Crest and Oral-B. “We like the steady, broad-based growth of...

May 2018

April 23, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

May Digital Edition How to Use the Source Directory Tip of the Month Expo West Coverage Understanding the Regenerative Organic Standard What's Selling People News...