Maltesers set to go Fairtrade in 2012
Mars Chocolate and Fairtrade International today announced an agreement to introduce the first Fairtrade labelled Mars product — Maltesers.
The move, which will appear in...
Soil Association signposts The Road to 2020
The Soil Association today published The Road to 2020, its “refreshed” strategy document setting out priorities for the next five years.
The organic charity says...
Natural brands fight breast cancer
With Breast Cancer Awareness Month coming up this October, well-known natural brands are busy doing their bit to support people living with the disease.
Throughout October, Giovanni...
Hear, hear — taking industry’s message straight to MPs
Viridian Nutrition has taken out a full page advertisement in House magazine, the official ‘trade mag’ for MPs and members of the House of...
Flaxseeds cut cancer risk by 40%
New research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology suggests that eating flaxseeds could cut the risk of dying from breast cancer by forty...
Pukka scores skincare first
Herbal pioneer Pukka has launched the UK’s first exclusive collection of Ayurvedic skincare.
Pukka Ayurveda Skincare offers consumers a Soil Association-certified organic beauty system that...
ASA take butcher’s at Tesco ad
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered that a television advert for Tesco’s Butcher’s Choice sausages be given the chop.
The advert featured pigs wandering...
Erin O’Connor gives natural beauty boost to LFW
Former supermodel Erin O’Connor is bringing key natural brands to London Fashion Week, which takes place 16-20 September.
As part of The Model Sanctuary, O’Connor’s...
Erin O’Connor brings natural look to London Fashion Week
Former supermodel Erin O’Connor is bringing key natural brands to London Fashion Week later this month.
As part of a project to look after show-weary...
Scots “Irn out” E number threat to iconic drink
Scotland’s other national drink — Irn Brun — will not have to have to be reformulate after an EU committee set a new maximum...
Food campaigners slate “Irresponsibility Deal”
The Children’s Food Campaign (CFC) has condemned the Government’s new Responsibility Deal, relabelling it an “irresponsibility Deal”.In a new report, CFC says the Responsibility...
Tree of Life win trade exclusive
Tree of Life UK Limited has announced an exclusive agreement with a British-owned natural skin treatment.
Salcura Natural Skin Therapy creates natural products designed to...
Artisan bread highlighted by salt campaigners
Artisan and natural breads were shown to contain the highest salt levels of bread analysed recently by the campaign group Consensus Action on Salt...
Waterfront winner
The sun came out last weekend as thousands of people converged on Bristol Waterfront for the 2011 Soil Association Organic Food Festival.
Visitors were able...
Stop characterising doctors as “uncaring” — Ernst
The alternative health sector is wrong to characterise doctors as “uncaring” and of failing to consider the psychological dimension of patients’ problems, says professor...
‘Organic for everyone’ will be key Soil Association strategy aim
Making organic food accessible to everyone and encouraging policy makers to embrace organic’s contribution to sustainable food production will form two key planks of...
‘Artificial meat’ — it’s not natural, but could it be ethical?
News that the first laboratory created ‘meat’ could be available to eat within months has not been welcomed by farming bodies — but animal...
Whole Foods to open in Cheltenham in 2012
Whole Foods Market has announced today that it will open a new 27,000 square-foot store in Cheltenham in Autumn 2012.
It will be the grocer’s...
UK Government support for organic “staggeringly low”
Government support for organic farming is now “the lowest in Europe” says the Soil Association’s policy director Peter Melchett.
Melchett made the comment in an...
Put heritage message at heart of organic campaign says entrepreneur
The founder of organic baby food brand Ella’s Kitchen, Paul Lindley, says industry should put a “heritage message” at the heart of future organic ...