Pacific Pioneer Brokerageof Cypress, CA, now represents UP4 Probiotics.
Bloomingdale, IL-basedNOW Foodswill donate more than $100,000 in funding and vitamin D supplements to support Protect Our Children NOW! This two-year project aims to improve health outcomes with prenatal vitamins. The hope is to expand from the Western Montana Clinic in Missoula, MT, to other cities soon. In other news, NOW relaunched NowFoods.com with a new look, updated content, a mobile-responsive design, new recipe and NOWledge databases and more.
PCC Natural Marketsopened its 11th location in Bothell, WA, on July 12.
The American Botanical Council (ABC) of Austin, TX, now has every issue of HerbalGram available online to ABC members at http://cms.herbalgram.org.
President Barack Obama has signed into lawBill S.764that requires companies to indicate via symbol, QR code or text whether foods contain GMOs. The Department of Agriculture has two years to develop exact rules.
Fitness coach and television personality Jillian Michaels andThrive Marketpartnered with Care2 to petition for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to use food stamps online.
Sprouts Farmers Marketof Phoenix, AZ, partnered withVitamin Angelsduring the month of August. Sprouts donated 25 cents to Vitamin Angels when certain products (nearly 1,000 in total) were purchased. In October, participants can simply ask to have their purchase total rounded up to the nearest dollar or make a donation with the money going to Vitamin Angels.
The newest issue ofOrganic Connections—6 Super-Healthy & Delightfully Easy Summertime Recipes—is available athttp://organicconnectmag.com/sr16oc.
Published in WholeFoods Magazine September 2016
