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Natural Products News Briefs: GOED, Gencor, Gnosis, & More

What's new in natural? Catch up on the latest!

September 24, 2024

Richard Ortega, Associate Editor, WholeFoods Magazine

Read up on all the latest news in the natural products industry.

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Educating Consumers Worldwide on Organic

Plus: U.S. Organic Marketplace Posts Record Sales in 2023

June 14, 2024

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

With organic sales growing, organic groups are focusing on initiatives around the world to continue to educate on the benefits of organic.

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Excellence in the Spotlight at Expo West!

ABC, AHPA, UNPA and The Organic Center presented awards to industry leaders who are making a major impact.

March 25, 2024

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Who is making a major impact in the natural products industry? Check out some of the awards presented during Natural Products Expo West.

FFAR, TOC Award $627K in Projects Advancing Organic Agriculture

November 23, 2022

Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

Washington, D.C.—The Organic Center (TOC) and the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) are awarding of $627,000 to support research and solutions to advance organic agriculture. The money will go to six projects that will move organic farming forward with much-needed training, technical support, and innovative climate research, according to a press release.

The Organic Center Collaborates on Two USDA-Funded Projects

September 11, 2020

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Washington, D.C.—The Organic Center will be collaborating on a project to help protect organic farmers against pesticide contamination and on a project to make agricultural technology available to all, according to a press release. The projects are made possible through two grants awarded from the USDA’s Organic Agriculture and Research...

Organic Farming is Worse for Climate Change? Not So, Says The Organic Center

October 24, 2019

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

A new study published in Nature Communications came to the conclusion that organic farming is worse for the planet than conventional—a “misguided” conclusion that The Organic Center says uses “the same tired fallacies” as previous studies. An article in MIT Technology Review titled “Sorry—Organic Farming is Actually Worse for Climate...

Study Raises New Concerns with Conventional Milk; Upsides of Organic

June 28, 2019

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Atlanta, GA--Antibiotics, pesticides, growth hormones...researchers at Emory University, working in collaboration with The Organic Center, collected and tested milk from stores across the United States and found traces of such chemicals in conventionally produced milk, according to a release from the University. The experts at Emory note that though most...