New Nordic Organic Food Fair to co-locate with Natural Products Scandinavia
Diversified Communications UK, event organiser of Natural Products Scandinavia, has announced the launch of a major new international trade show for the Nordic organic...
Paul Moore is new OTB chair
Paul Moore has elected as the new chair of the Organic Trade Board (OTB).
Moore, until recently marketing director of Community Foods, has been a...
High visibility CHC campaign goes live
Consumers for Health Choice (CHC) has warned UK and EU regulators that setting low dose levels for dietary supplements will hit consumer choice and...
Neom gets its knuckles wrapped by ASA over ‘organic’ candles
Natural beauty brand Neom Luxury Organics has branded a recent Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling on its organic candles as ‘disappointing’.
A complainant challenged whether...
Organic could harm environment food security expert claims
A prominent food security expert has claimed that encouraging Europe’s farmers to switch to organic production could “do more environmental harm than good”, reports...
Price pressures will lead to more food scandals – Browning
Continuing pressure for cheap food will lead to further food scandals, warned the director of the Soil Association this week.
Speaking on a BBC Newsnight...
Government still failing organic sector says bakery owner
The British Government is continuing to fail the organic sector says the founder of the award-winning Honeyrose Bakery.
Danish-born Lise Madsen recently told the food...
FSA prosecutes Selfridges over raw milk case
The Food Standards Agency is prosecuting Selfridges Retail Limited and the farmer who supplied the retailer with raw cow milk for sale, for breaches...
Kingfisher founder “gives up the fight over SLS”
Leading natural toothpaste brand Kingfisher has reformulated its products to remove the controversial ingredient sodium lauryl sulfate.
Kingfisher’s founder, Richard Austin, told Natural Products that...
Minister laments Britons’ “disgusting” lunch habit
Anna Soubry, the minister for public health, says that many Britons have a “weird relationship with food” – they’re obsessed with watching celebrity chefs...
Soil Association plans Expo West presence in 2014
The Soil Association is planning to host a showcase stand at next year’s Natural Products Expo West, where around 60,000 industry traders will converge...
Health claims – “Doing nothing isn’t an option”
With new EU health claims regulations now law, a senior figure from Trading Standards has warned suppliers and retailers that “doing nothing is not...
MPs back Commons Motion warning of FSD job loss threat
A cross-party group of MPs has backed a House of Commons Motion warning of job losses and store closures if restrictive levels for vitamins...
True Colours
With NATRUE certification now available in the UK we speak to technical adviser Richard Swann about what makes the certifier more than just another...
Capping vitamin levels “would hit consumer choice and cut jobs” say...
The Daily Telegraph has today published an article highlighting the concerns of three MPs over plans for setting maximum permitted levels (MPLs) for vitamins...
Parking charges “hammering town centres”
Figures released this week showing a huge rise in revenue for councils through car parking fines and charges is damning proof local authorities are...
‘Agroecology Alliance’ launched at alternative farming conference
There was passion and realism on display at this year's Real Farming Conference, the feisty rival to the establishment Oxford Farming Conference. Michael Wale...
Professor offers science lesson to GM ‘conversionista’
A US university professor has welcomed former anti-GM-activist Mark Lynas’s “discovery of science”.
Lynas attributes his new-found affection for GM (which he trumpeted at last...
Former anti-GM activist attacks “pernicious myth of organic”
A former anti-GM activist has accused the organic movement of perpetrating “the most pernicious myth of all” by claiming that organic methods can help...
Duchy profits up a third
Profits at Duchy Originals rose by a third in 2012 to £3.23 million, reports Retail Gazette.
In 2009 the organic brand passed into Waitrose fold...