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InsideTheIndustry: Calendar&Events

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... June Promotional Ideas Dairy Month Dairy Alternatives Month Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month Children's Awareness Month Professional Wellness Month Soul Food Month Iced Tea Month Candy Month Turkey Lovers' Month Gay ...

CompanyNews

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Callaway Consumer Products chose Natural/Specialty Sales Inc. to represent its line of Organic Bistro Whole Life Meals throughout the Western United States. Natural/Specialty Sales Inc. will provide trade contacts and market expertise to promote the ovenready ...

PeopleNews

Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Jarrow Industries, a nutritional supplements company, hired Brad Douglass, Ph.D., as a technical specialist and Lisa Schultz as a research associate. Previously, Douglass worked for KinetiChem Inc. where he developed chemistry applications for the company. Schultz has an informationtechnology ...

Defeat ID thieves

Apr 01, 2008; Stewart, Kimberly Lord ... Shoppers' data is in your hands "The fact is, the criminal who develops a targeted attack is wilier and more patient than the average work-a-day phisherman. He's spent time learning about your organization, about your employees, about your business partners. He's worked out ways to sneak ...

Tailor brand management to fit your store

Apr 01, 2008; Hoback, Jane ... The Granary in Sarasota, Fla., stocks supplements made by more than 100 companies. "We tend to have everybody," says store manager Earl Hughes. "In some instances it can be a little confusing to consumers." At Steve and Nancy Long's Harmony Farms Natural Food Store in Raleigh, N.C., it's a ...

Act now to ensure your workers' safety

Apr 01, 2008; Colter, Carolee ... The Natural Employer Acute back pain. A broken bone from a fall. A finger caught in a meat slicer. While these workplace accidents mean pain and suffering for your employees, they also mean costs to your business. Liberty Mutual, the leading provider of workers' compensation ...

Getting right with your higher authority-your customers

Apr 01, 2008; Crawford, Bill ... The Practical Manager Having the right merchandise at the right price is a key to retail success. It creates happy customers, sales, profit and momentum toward repeat business. But who determines what the right merchandise and right price are? Is it best to carry what you want? ...

Bites

Apr 01, 2008; Rutberg, Shara ... A scoop to save the bees Honeybees do the most critical work for nearly 40 percent of ice-cream manufacturer Haagen-Dazs' superpremium flavors, pollinating fields of clover and forests of fruit trees. A division of The Pillsbury Co., Haagen-Dazs hopes to return the favor by supporting ...

A Sustainable Distance?

Apr 01, 2008; Oliver, Hilary ... Superfruit companies save communities, rain forest It could be the quintessential dilemma for a naturals shopper: There she stands, reusable shopping tote over her shoulder, two apples in hand-one grown in her own region of the country, the other flown in from New Zealand. After a ...

Shoppers hungry for local fare

Apr 01, 2008; Rutberg, Shara ... Uncertainty doesn't taste very good. Sour and mealy, like a bloated February mega-mart tomato, its tough skin sticks between your teeth like nagging insecurities. In many ways, it's an uncertain world beyond the end of the fork: food-borne illness, cloned cows, genetically modified crops, plus a ...

Take a raw look at naked food bars

Apr 01, 2008; Uhland, Vicky ... When Lara Merriken dumped some nuts, dates and dried fruit into an old Cuisinart eight years ago, she had no idea she was pureeing her way into history. All Merriken wanted to do was create an energy bar that was more nutritious than the Snickers knockoffs she kept finding on supermarket ...

Do you have shroom for improvement?

Apr 01, 2008; Mulcahy, Mark ... Produce Perspectives I recently attended a birthday party that I needed to cook for, and I wanted to make something really special. So I found this great recipe for stuffed crimini mushrooms, and they turned out to be fantastic. Everyone raved about them and how the rich, savory flavor ...

OASIS provides relief in regulatory desert

Apr 01, 2008; Clute, Mitchell ... Industry group works on PC standards Since the establishment of the National Organic Program in 2002, the word organic has had a clear meaning, backed by law and identical for all manufacturers. However, a similar standard has never been established for cosmetics and personal care ...

Vitamin research a hard pill to swallow

Apr 01, 2008; Uhland, Vicky ... The humble vitamin pill was spotlighted in March, and not in a good way. A Harvard Medical School report linked multivitamins with increased risk of colorectal cancer, and a large University of Washington study found that vitamin E could contribute to lung cancer. Both of the findings ...

OTA executive director resigns

Apr 01, 2008; Soref, Anna ... News Beat The executive director of the Organic Trade Association, Caren Wilcox, has tendered her resignation after two years with the Greenfield, Mass.-based organization. She plans to leave at the end of OTA's fiscal year on June 30. The board accepted Wilcox's resignation with regret ...

Industry decries new AER-labeling guidance

Apr 01, 2008; Oliver, Hilary ... Supplements-industry leaders are asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to withdraw a labeling guidance draft that it published in January to assist companies in complying with the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act, which went into effect in December 2007 ....

Bt cotton, Roundup-ready sugar beets under fire

Apr 01, 2008; Clute, Mitchell ... Organic farmers fear they will lose Bt, one of their primary defenses against pests, because of Bt resistance caused by GM cotton-just as organic advocates warned 10 years ago, when Monsanto's Bt corn and soy came to market. A new study, released in early February, has discovered boll ...

Humane Society files suit against USDA over downer cows in food supply

Apr 01, 2008; O'Brien, Chris ... On Feb. 27, the Humane Society filed suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture to close a loophole that allows sick and disabled cattle-also called "downer" cows-to enter the nation's food supply in an effort to improve food safety and demand more humane treatment of cattle. Under ...

13 states demand 'cloned' label

Apr 01, 2008; Rutberg, Shara ... In January, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ruled that meat and milk from cloned animals are "as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals," and need not be labeled. Lawmakers in 13 states have introduced bills that disagree. The bills' language is strong: "No person ...

Quercetin: Natural plant compound bolsters wellness

Apr 01, 2008; Webb, Densie ... Quercetin belongs to a family of naturally occurring, water-soluble plant compounds known as polyphenols, flavonoids, flavonols and bio- flavonoids, and it appears to have both antiinflammatory and antioxidant properties. In 2003, the U.S. Department of Agriculture developed a database ...