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18 March 2010   
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Editor's Comment  
Do we really want ‘drugs for everyone’?
March 3, 2010 - Deprived of the low-hanging fruit of medical research, the drugs industry now has to spend ever more vast sums of money to research and develop ever more hit or miss drugs. Full Story »

Food File  
Superfood nation
March 3, 2010 - Less emphasis on terminology, more focus on nutrition — that’s the direction the superfoods category looks to be heading in 2010, writes Julia Brandon. Full Story »

 
Featured Products
VITALISE POWDER

FLEXI-MELT & CALCI-PLUS

TOGETHER DRINKS

BIONA ORGANIC SUPER JUICES

KOYU MATCHA GREEN TEA

BODYSPEC PLATINUM ORGANIC MANGOSTEEN

Health File  
Women kind
March 3, 2010 - Women’s health is a key area for the natural products industry. General wellbeing, hormonal health and pregnancy continue to draw women into health food stores and Sarah Callard explores what they really, really want. Full Story »

 
Featured Products
NAPIERS ELIXIR OF ECHINACEA

FERTILITY PLUS FOR WOMEN/MEN

FERTILITY PLUS FOR WOMEN/MEN

FERTILITY FOR MEN & FERTILITY FOR WOMEN

YES BABY

DIDA

100% HEALTH PACK

FLORADIX LIQUID IRON FORMULA

NATURE’S ANSWER COMPLEX FEMALE

ANTE NATAL FORTE SHOWCASE

SPATONE

PREGNAZON

Industry News  
Protestors’ homeopathic overdose was “grossly irresponsible”
March 3, 2010 - MORE THAN 400 homeopathy sceptics staged a series of “mass homeopathic overdoses” outside branches of Boots last month. Full Story »

Awards highlight health food shoppers' favourite products
March 3, 2010 - Natural Lifestyle magazine has announced the winners of the first-ever Natural Lifestyle Awards. Full Story »

Green & Black’s to be 100% Fairtrade by 2011
March 3, 2010 - ORGANIC chocolate pioneer Green & Black’s says it will switch its entire worldwide range to Fairtrade by the end of next year. Full Story »

Horizon programme portrays “nation of pill poppers”
March 3, 2010 - A BBC 2 Horizon programme screened last month portrayed Britain as a nation of pill poppers. Full Story »

Retailers get to meet the experts at Olympia show
March 3, 2010 - NEW FOR 2010 at Natural & Organic Products Europe is a special ‘Come and Meet the Experts’ session aimed at independent health food retailers. Full Story »

Dr Chris Steele calls for action on coeliac disease
March 3, 2010 - ITV This Morning doctor and complementary health supporter, Dr Chris Steele MBE, has handed in a petition to 10 Downing Street, calling on the Government to help improve the diagnosis of coeliac disease. Steele has just been diagnosed with the condition. Full Story »

Beware beauty firms’ ‘guilty secrets’, retailers urged
March 3, 2010 - Health store retailers should scrutinise the ingredients of natural and organic personal care products in the same way they do with food says a prominent researcher. Full Story »

Holland & Barett trials food-to-go in radical new concept store
March 3, 2010 - HOLLAND & Barrett last month unveiled a radical new concept store in Bury St Edmunds. Full Story »

Latest News  
Heather Mills and Gillian McKeith get cooking at Olympia!
March 16, 2010 - Animal rights campaigner Heather Mills and health food legend Gillian McKeith will be getting down to some serious cooking in the Organic Kitchen at this year’s Natural & Organic Products Europe (London Olympia, April 11-12). Full Story »

Roots Manuva headlines Bristol Eco Veggie Fayre
March 16, 2010 - South London-based rapper Roots Manuva will headline this year’s Bristol Eco Veggie Fayre on May 29th and 30th. Full Story »

Styler launches organic ‘meal packs’
March 16, 2010 - The actress and producer Trudie Styler is launching a new range of organic ready meals with food industry veteran Ed Olphin. Full Story »

Suma steals a lead on green packaging
March 16, 2010 - Suma Foods says it is setting the pace in green packaging by switching to innovative new materials for its pre-packs. Full Story »

Scottish herbals sector lobbies MSPs over THMPD
March 16, 2010 - Medical herbalists, retailers and herbal manufacturers have lobbied Members of the Scottish Parliament over their concerns on the effects of EU legislation on their profession and the wider herbals industry. Full Story »

UK industry confident on supplement shelf-life
March 16, 2010 - The UK health food trade says it has “no doubt” that properly stored food supplements are effective until their best-by dates. Full Story »

Health claims may damage perception of naturalness — study
March 16, 2010 - Making a health claim on a product could lead to consumers thinking it is less natural, reports foodnavigator.com. This is one of the conclusions of research carried out recently by Scandinavian scientists* who looked at how product descriptions alter consumers’ attitudes to them, either negatively or positively. Full Story »

The Columnists  
CRAIG SAMS - IN HIS OWN WORDS
March 3, 2010 - This is no game of Monopoly Full Story »

PATRICK HOLFORD
March 3, 2010 - Four ways to programme yourself to slow down ageing Full Story »

 


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