| Only Natural Pet Store Celebrates Third Anniversary With Dynamic Growth
Only Natural Pet Store, the largest online retailer of natural pet products, celebrated three years of success in June, reporting triple-digit growth each year. The numbers recognize expansion consistent with the leaders in the natural products industry as green products and businesses become more mainstream. .
Court asks for more time in Whole Foods case
Takeover of Wild Oats delayed again. By Lilly RockwellAMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Whole Foods can't break out the champagne yet. A federal appeals court said Monday that it needs more time to determine whether to block Whole Foods Market Inc.'s proposed $565 million purchase of rival organic grocer Wild Oats Markets Inc. .
Organic almond supporters roast pasteurization plan
A new food regulation that mandates the pasteurization of California almonds leaves a bad taste in the mouth of Jesse Schwartz, a purveyor of raw organic almond butter and other natural foods in Berkeley. For 25 years, as president of Living Tree Community Foods, he has done business with small Central Valley farmers, and now, effective Sept. 1, he'll have to buy raw nuts for processing from Italy, Spain and Turkey - almonds of lesser quality, he will tell you. "Almonds are a part of the heritage of the American people, and it makes me very sad that they're about to dump a fumigant on our American heritage," Schwartz said, referring to a method of pasteurization that involves chemicals. After two outbreaks of salmonella bacteria poisoning that were traced to almonds - in 2001 and 2004 - the Almond Board of California, the industry's trade association, proposed to the Department of Agriculture that mandatory sterilization be imposed in the name of consumer safety.
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