“This should be a warning to the industrial food sector that avoiding clear on-packaging labeling by using QR codes alone will not pass legal scrutiny,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety.
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“This should be a warning to the industrial food sector that avoiding clear on-packaging labeling by using QR codes alone will not pass legal scrutiny,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety.
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Next up is USDA approval and commercialization in 2023. A very troubling development.
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Online grocery company Misfits Market to acquire Imperfect Foods in an all-stock deal.
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Workers at MOM’s Organic Market voted 58-5 to join Teamsters Local 570, in hopes of better pay, a clear pay structure and more job security.
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Coyuchi, the first organic luxury home goods brand for sustainable living, has filed to go public through a Regulation A+ offering.
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With sponsors such as Syngenta and Nestle, the Regenerative Agriculture & Food Systems Summit faced real backlash.
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One should expect similar numbers in the U.S., yet group after group is trying to feed us propaganda that this is the only way to feed the world.
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According to the Organic Produce Network and Category Partners, inflation gave a lift to organic fresh produce dollar sales but pinched unit volume in the second quarter of 2022.
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“The effect on the farms that had their contract canceled was traumatic and devastating, not only to them but to the regional community,” said Ed Maltby, executive director of the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance.
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One of the numerous changes is the introduction of palm-scanning devices, which allow for checkout-free shopping.
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Led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the funding from this Series A round will be used to continue its national expansion and to double the number of retailers that carry its products.
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Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard, the head of Europe’s largest food retailer, said consumers now have penny-pinching approach to shopping and are swapping out organic for conventional.
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Dollar sales of refrigerated meat alternatives are declining in double-digits, while frozen products are growing in the high single digits, according to IRI data crunched by 210 Analytics.
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According to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, the number of non-certified organic farms actively transitioning to organic production dropped by nearly 71% since 2008. Through the comprehensive support provided by this initiative, the USDA hopes to reverse this trend.
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The e-commerce platform is on a mission to “bring real, good, authentic, organic ingredients from Italy to the United States.”
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In a worst-case scenario, McKinsey is predicting a food deficit representing a year’s worth of nutritional intake for up to 250m people – or 3% of the global population.
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Vividly, a software solution that helps trade performance management, closed on a financing led by Vertex Ventures US.
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The LA-based private equity firm, which owns large stakes in MaryRuth Organics and Pete & Gerry’s Organic Eggs, has closed on its sophomore fund.
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Just published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, a University of Wisconsin-Madison research group unveiled a dairy lifecycle assessment conducted on Organic Valley farms that shows small organic dairy farms, which focus on grazing and organic production techniques, are low greenhouse gas champions.
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The publicl-traded health and wellness company has confirmed its receipt of an unsolicited offer from EF Hutton SPV I LLC to acquire the company’s outstanding common stock for $3 per share in cash.
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With Seth Goldman’s new iced tea brand set to hit shelves next month, the financing was led by Collaborative Fund, S2G Ventures and previous Honest tea stakeholders, distributors and suppliers.
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The organic baby food brand will use the funds to support national expansion, fuel DTC growth and serve the quickly growing waitlist of over 10,000 families.
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In 2020, just as covid hit, the USDA, EPA and FDA launched a pro-GMO campaign called Feed Your Mind. That program has since been updated.
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Organic grain production in the U.S. is growing but not fast enough to meet the organic livestock industry’s needs
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