Organic Grower Eef Maassen and Top Class Restaurant “Kaatje bij de Sluis” Join Forces to Promote Tasty Organic Tomatoes

September 16th, 2009 CAPE TOWN, South Africa and WADDINXVEEN, The Netherlands - Eosta subsidiary Soil & More has been awarded the right to recover about 95% of the City's green waste for organic composting. Soil & More Reliance (SMR) recently signed a contract worth around 70 million Rand with the City of Cape Town.

September 2nd, 2009 HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England - "Organic Food Fortnight" (5th - 20th September) is a nationwide celebration of organic food and drink. It creates ideal sales opportunities for farm shops, delicatessens & fine food outlets, and organic food supplier (www.cotswold-fayre.co.uk/organic-food-supplier) Cotswold Fayre is offering new clients a 10% discount to celebrate.

August 18th, 2009 NEW YORK - - Organic and Naturals Pioneer to Provide Insight on this US$8 Billion Industry One of the few bright spots of this year in the beauty industry is the naturals and organic market and HBA Global Expo (www.hbaexpo.com) has obtained one of its most well-known innovators and activists to deliver a Keynote Presentations on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. in the Special Events Hall of the Javits Center in New York.

August 4th, 2009 BOULDER, Colorado - - FSA-Commissioned 'Nutritional Quality of Organic Foods: A Systematic Review' Draws Unsupported Conclusions from a Flawed and Incomplete Look at Benefits of Organic Foods The following is being issued by The Organic Center -- We (The Organic Center) strongly refute the claim made by Dr. Alan Dangour and his U.K.

August 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Based on its recent analysis of the spintronics markets for sensor applications, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Organic Spintronics with the 2008 European Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award for its discovery of organic spintronics by combining organic semiconductors with ferromagnetic materials. (Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO) Most of the research in spintronics is centred on the use of inorganic semiconductors such as gallium arsenide, which are not suitable for room temperature operations.

June 10th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - Virtual Environment Brings Renowned Organic Chemists Live From Paris to Your Desk Top Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that it will host the Tetrahedron Virtual Conference (www.tetrahedron-symposium.elsevier.com) - a real-time virtual platform offering low cost online access to the high quality content to be presented at the Tenth Tetrahedron Symposium in Paris, France, 24-26 June 2009. From Wednesday 24 June, virtual delegates will have access to real-time video webcasts of selected presentations during the three days of the Symposium and to the archived content for three months after the event.

June 8th, 2009 ANTWERP - Motivated by their search for a more healthy and serene lifestyle, Chantal Voets and Karin Schwithal, who have been friends since their early childhood, opened the virtual doors of their AmanVida web shop. Worldwide, they select exceptional natural products, which contribute to healthier living with respect for the producer and for nature.

April 22nd, 2009 COPENHAGEN - Ask the world's top 50 chefs to pick their favorite restaurant in the world. They just have.

April 21st, 2009 BANGKOK - International visitors to the upcoming THAIFEX - World of food ASIA 2009 will delight in a wondrous array of premium-quality organic agricultural products. Confidence is high in the potential of Thai food entrepreneurs as they are geared up to demonstrate to international buyers their capabilities and expertise in producing world-class organic agricultural products and in making Thailand the exporter to beat in this field in the world marketplace.

April 14th, 2009 ANTONY, France - 1st Quarter 2009: Favourable Developments - Continuing Strong Growth: +15% (Organic* +14%) - Successful Launch of Oralair(R) in Germany - Net Financial Debt: Down 50% (EUR millions) 2008 08/07 2009 09/08 Million EUR % Sales % Million EUR % Sales % change Southern Europe (1) 37.9 78 14 41.8 74 10 Other EU countries (2) 9.4 19 16 12.7 23 36 Other markets 1.7 3 45 1.7 3 0 SLIT 40.8 83 18 47.2 84 16 SCIT 6.3 13 1 6.9 12 11 Other products 1.9 4 7 2.1 4 11 Q1 sales 49.0 100 15 56.2 100 15 (1) Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece. (2) Including Switzerland Sales growth Sales growth of 15% (organic* 14%) was reported over the first quarter 2009 to EUR 56.2 million.

September 21st, 2009 KOHIMA - To promote organic agri-business in Nagaland, the State horticulture department has undertaken several initiatives to encourage farmers to take up organic farming. The Department of Horticulture of Nagaland is working closely with farmers in Mokokchung district.

April 29th, 2009 LONDON - Actress Elizabeth Hurley will join hands with Prince Charles to launch a range of organic and low fat food. Hurley was inspired to go into the catering business last year after reading dietary advice for women hoping to avoid breast cancer.

May 10th, 2009 KOCHI - To popularise organic food among the masses, a weeklong mango festival was held here this past week. It had over 150 rare varieties of mangoes, all cultivated and ripened using organic and natural methods.

April 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hollywood actress Elizabeth Hurley has joined forces with Prince Charles to launch a new range of low-fat organic food. The 'Bedazzled' actress was reportedly motivated to foray into the catering business after reading dietary advice for women hoping to avoid breast cancer, reports Contactmusic.

March 23rd, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Sabarmati Prison in Ahmedabad has launched an initiative to promote organic cultivation. Taken up by Siddharth Jaiswal, an alumni of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), with the help of prison authorities, the initiative is aimed at training prison inmates in organic cultivation.

April 27th, 2009 Wash. grower has all-organic peaches, nectarinesYAKIMA, Wash. — One of the Pacific Northwest's largest fruit growers has had 100 percent of its peach and nectarine crops certified as organic, following a three-year transition period.

March 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Herbal gulals, which had become very popular in the past few years as people shunned toxic colours during the festival of Holi, are now facing stiff competition from new organic gulals that are packed with health benefits. 'Organic gulal is not only free from harmful chemicals, but also act as a skin conditioner.

August 17th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Organic farming is catching up among the farmers in Assam, who have traditionally been using manure with inorganic and synthetic fertilisers. However, of late, the use of inorganic chemical fertilisers has almost come to a standstill.

September 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Organic foods may be healthier and may not tax the environment, but choosing them is not an easy option for consumers when the other option is locally grown foods, says a new study. Chengyan Yue, horticulture professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (UMTC), and colleague Cindy Tong investigated consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organically grown and locally grown fresh produce.

August 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research from the University of Washington scientists has described an approach to organic electronics that allows transport of both positive and negative charges. Until now, however, circuits built with organic materials have allowed only one type of charge to move through them.