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Have you booked your place yet for this autumn’s must-attend retailer event – Natural Products Live? 100% retailer focused, Natural products Live is a one-day...

Trading Standards officers have been told by the Food Standards Agency to crack down on companies selling ‘fake’ manuka honey. The move comes after recent...

Organic skincare brand Pai Skincare is staging a special event to highlight the growing problem of ‘fake’ beauty logos. Pai is holding a ‘know the...

The Irish Government wants to see 5% of farmland in Ireland under organic production by 2020. The target is included in an ambitious new Organic...

Health care professionals, medical researchers and politicians called for a concerted effort to tackle the growing problem of vitamin D deficiency at a special...

Organic home delivery business Gousto has won backing of around £1 million within days of being sent packing by the Dragon’s Den investors. Gousto, which...

The amount of food contaminated with pesticide residues has nearly doubled in a decade, a new report from the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) reveals. Pesticides...

Eating whole fruits could provide protection from type-2 diabetes, while drinking too much fruit juice may put people at risk of developing the disease. That's...

The theory that pesticide residues in food are killing human gut bacteria and contributing to major 21st Century illnesses is becoming mainstream, says a...

A legal challenge to the current status of glucosamine products is a watershed moment for the health food trade with major implications for both...

The consumer group Which? claims that some food supplement manufacturers are breaking new EU rules on health claims. Which? says that while most companies have...

NHS health checks for the over 40s are “useless" and are likely lead to patients taking drugs they don’t need. That’s the conclusion of researchers...

The natural and organic community has been giving its verdict on the lab-grown burger created by Dutch scientist Dr Mark Post and presented to...

Support for this year’s Organic September is coming from the full width of the organic sector – from independent retailers to supermarket chains, farmers...

A major new Government review has acknowledged the case for UK-led solutions to issues such as the setting of maximum levels for vitamins and...

When Janet Barnett told friends she was starting a health food store in a gritty small town on the northern edge of Liverpool they...

Mainstream organic brands are leading the wider organic category back to sustained growth, reports The Grocer. Citing new market data from Kantar, the food industry...

The Times and Daily Mail report that Prince Charles met privately with the health secretary Jeremy Hunt at Clarence House last week to discuss...

Monsanto is withdrawing its current applications to cultivate genetically modified crops in Europe following years of frustration at EU approval systems. But despite a flurry...

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is proposing a 31 December 2013 end-date for the sell through of unlicensed herbal products. Following the...