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Mar 1, 2024 | 
naturalbrands.co.uk | Rosie Greenaway
Following a 12th year of successive growth for UK organic the Soil Association (SA) has unveiled its annual Organic Market Report (OMR), reporting that the sector has reached a value of £3.2 billion. Providing an overview of this year’s OMR Alex Cullen, commercial and marketing director, Soil Association Certification, points to the ‘bounce back’ of independent retailers and supermarkets as a key driver in organic’s 2023 success story.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
naturalproductsonline.co.uk | Rosie Greenaway
Winter is approaching; you can virtually feel your skin tightening up in protest. But what do the skincare experts recommend to combat a jaded complexion during the darker months? Rosie Greenaway takes notesWhile Britain’s climate is classed as temperate, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel Arctic during winter’s peak. As temperatures plummet and the wind howls, skin suffers; complexions typically become dull and dehydrated.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
naturalproductsonline.co.uk | Rosie Greenaway
The BBC has been criticized by a sustainable farming think-tank for what it describes as ‘misleading’ and ‘simplistic’ assertions about organic farming in the broadcaster’s Bitesize GCSE revision guides.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
naturalproductsonline.co.uk | Rosie Greenaway
There’s no net zero without fixing fertilizer: this is the message of a new petition launched by the Soil Association (SA) which urges Government to take immediate action on fossil fuel-based nitrogen, which the charity warns is ‘300 times more potent at warming the atmosphere than CO2’.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
naturalproductsonline.co.uk | Rosie Greenaway
The Social Market Foundation (SMF) reports that nearly three-fifths of Brits have, to some degree, reduced their meat intake, while 57% believe the nation as a whole should cut its consumption of animal products. The findings are published in the SMF report Chewing it Over: Public attitudes to alternative proteins and meat reduction, published today.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
naturalproductsonline.co.uk | Rosie Greenaway
Researchers from Riga Stradins University have concluded that vitamin D deficiency is prevalent among pregnant and postpartum Latvian women after a study found only 21% to have optimal levels. Between July 2020 and January 2023 a cross-sectional study was conducted of 735 women who were either between 27-40 weeks of gestation or who had delivered less than seven days earlier, all of whom must have resided in Latvia for at least the past year.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
naturalproductsonline.co.uk | Rosie Greenaway
A major new initiative has its sights set on combating period poverty in Uganda and improving the lives of up to 50,000 girls and women in the country a year. The Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) has partnered with the Randal Charitable Foundation to open a special manufacturing plant which aims to produce 200,000 reusable menstrual pads annually. The Keep a Girl in School (KAGIS) Manufacturing Plant, which opened on 11 August, is described as a ‘landmark social enterprise project’.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
naturalproductsonline.co.uk | Rosie Greenaway
There are new concerns over the presence of PFAS, also known as ‘forever chemicals’, in paper straws. A research team in Belgium tested 39 brands of commercially available straws made from a range of materials – including paper, bamboo and stainless steel – checking for 29 individual PFAS compounds.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
naturalproductsonline.co.uk | Rosie Greenaway
Microplastics, it is now accepted, are to be found everywhere – from the air we breathe and the seas we swim and fish in, to the food we consume and even the uterine cavity. Until now, data on microplastic exposure in entirely enclosed human organs – such as the heart – has been lacking, but a new piece of research published in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Publications is set to change that.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
naturalproductsonline.co.uk | Rosie Greenaway
A major new campaign, #SaveOurCBD, has launched to secure the future of the UK’s CBD industry, beginning with an urgent plea to the Home Office to instate a legal framework covering the sale of CBD products. Endorsed by leading CBD organizations and businesses, the #SaveOurCBD campaign is a collective effort which requests that the Government ‘provide urgent clarity regarding the establishment of a legal framework within which businesses can operate securely, safely and responsibly’.
