Whole Foods Market is expanding its organic food offerings and will launch a campaign next year that's focused on healthy eating, Brian Gaar reports. CEO John Mackey disclosed the plans as he
reported a 2% increase in sales in its fiscal third quarter, although sales at stores open at least a year slipped by 2.5%.
"We believe continuing to raise the bar in areas that
matter to our customers will reinforce our leadership position in natural and organic foods, resulting in greater customer loyalty for many years to come," Mackey said.
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Republic's
Jacquie Bowser reports that some consumers in Great
Britain are more wary of organic food following the release of a report commissioned by the Food Standards Agency that found that there was no evidence of additional health benefits from eating
organic food. The report, "Nutritional Quality of Organic Foods: A Systematic Review," was written by a team led by Alan Dangour at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and
will be published next month in the
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The Organic Center in the U.S. has posted a response to the
study. It convened a team of scientists that it says "carried out a similar, but more rigorous" review of the same literature and came to very different conclusions. Its methodology and
findings are
spelled out here.
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