Organic has taken a bit of a battering this year . UK sales seem to be down in many sectors: TNS reckon -14% year-on-year. The recession caused many light-green consumers to question the benefits they got from organic purchases and the FSA’s badly designed attack on nutritional benefits did not help. Envious eyes have been [...]
From FoodNavigator.com “The European Commission yesterday unveiled the three finalists in its contest for design students to come up with the new logo that will be mandatory on all organic food and beverage products, under the 2007 EU regulation on organic foods (834/2007). A spokesperson for the Commission told FoodNavigator.com that after public vote, which [...]
To the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park hotel for the launch of Fair, “the worlds first Fairtrade Certified Vodka”. And jolly nice it is too. My first martini (ginger and lemon) was a little uneventful but the Chocolate Martini (made with Divine chocolate) and the Fairspresso Martini (using Cafédirect coffee) were both sensational. The founders of [...]