Something’s Rotten in The FDA AS Regulators Loving The Regulated
FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford announced his resignation on Friday. Crawford, a long-time FDA deputy, served as acting Commissioner for three years before Senate hearings confirmed his appointment just two months ago. His announcement on a day that media coverage focused on Hurricane Rita was interpreted as an attempt to minimize news coverage on the ever […]
Shocking News: Supermodel Admits Using Cocaine
Okay, so maybe we’re cynical, but we doubt it. More likely, we’re realists. We’ve lived long enough to know that people do things that don’t always make sense, at least to us. The recent decision by European retailer H&M to cancel a contract with supermodel Kate Moss after her admitted cocaine use isn’t really our […]
Chromium Gets FDA Approval—Health Claim for Diabetes Approved
In case you think chromium is just for the fenders on cars built before 1980, think again. A recent FDA ruling allowing qualified health claims for chromium picolinate might mean you’ll see cereal boxes touting ‘added chromium.’ As the supplement savvy NBN readers know, chromium, in the form of chromium picolinate, has been shown to […]
Wal-Mart Canada Makes Us Blush—Retailer Begins Selling Sex Toys
While this has very little to do with our normal range of stories, well, we just couldn’t resist passing this on. According to a story in Canada’s newspaper, The Globe & Mail, Wal-Mart Canada will begin selling sex toys, or what the retailer euphemistically refers to as ‘sexually well being products’. As noted in the […]
Trinity Launches….Err…Organic…Um… Water
Okay we like the folks at Trinity Water. We really do. But the news that the company has launched a new line of organic flavored waters leaves us wondering if someone spent too much time in the spring and had their common sense soaked out of them. Its organic flavored water, but come on folks, […]
Senate Proposes Changes on Organic Rules
Is It Like Putting the Fox in Charge of Guarding The Henhouse More and more granola minded soccer moms are buying organic nut butters, gallons of Odwalla juices and Amy’s Organic frozen dinners at big box stores. No surprise here. In San Francisco, I know lots of folks who load up their Volvos at Whole […]
The Real Dirt on Farm Aid, Farmer John and Some Down Home Music
The 20th annual Farm Aid concert was a huge success this Sunday. Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Kenny Chesney, John Mellencamp, Wilco and others performed for over 10 hours before a crowd of 28,000. Ticket sales grossed $1.3 million with a portion directed to aid Gulf Coast hurricane relief effort victims as […]
Corporate Arm Wrestling: Hain Spectrum Deal Not Finalized
Word from the street (some call it gossip) is that Spectrum Organics is still in negotiations over final details of the company’s sale to the Hain Food Group. While no one suggested that the announced purchase by Hain is on the rocks, some folks wonder if the independent minded (some call it stubborn) Phillips is […]
Kerry on Katrina, Bush and the Boy Scouts
John Kerry, from a speech delivered at Brown University: “Katrina stripped away any image of competence and exposed to all the true heart and nature of this administration. The truth is that for four and a half years, real life choices have been replaced by ideological agenda, substance replaced by spin, governance second place always […]
We’re Skipping The Expo and Heading to Canada
NBN’s Own ‘Deep Throat’ To Report From the Show As we noted a few weeks ago more and more manufacturers are deciding that the increasingly high costs of exhibiting at both New Hope shows isn’t worth it. NBN was planning on attending, but a better opportunity came up last month. Instead we are flying to […]
