Happy New Year!!!

Volume XXVII | November, 2017

Your monthly news & updates

Happy New Year O&N Members!

Give Yourself an "A"

As we look towards 2018 consider making a New Year's resolution, based on the words of Benjamin Zander, author of The Art of Possibility, Give Yourself an A!

Members of Organic & Natural represent the Best of the Best. You are companies committed to transparency, traceability, and continual quality improvement, ensuring consumers have access to the quality ingredients, products, and services you create.

We are raw ingredient suppliers and manufacturers. We create finished products and we sell finished products. We are advocates for consumers and retailers. We are food, beverage and supplements. We support organic and natural health. We aspire to the highest standards.

Organic & Natural Health,

uniting consumers and corporations

to transform business practices

to align with regenerative practices

that support the health of people

and a healthy planet.

Celebrate 2018

at Organic & Natural Health's

3rd Annual Conference

January 23-24, 2018

Pink Shell Resort & Marine

Ft. Myers, Florida

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION and SCHEDULE LINK

Invited Guests and Members Only

MAKE YOUR ROOM RESERVATIONS TODAY

Room Block Full? Email Karen Howard ASAP

Schedule of Events

Tuesday, JANUARY 23, 2018

5- 9:00 pm

Opening Cocktail and Dinner Party

Wednesday, JANUARY 24, 2018

7:30 - 8:30 am

Members Only Breakfast and Testing Update

8:30 - 9:00 am

Open Breakfast

9 - 9:45 am

Dr. Joseph Mercola, Keynote Speaker

Sessions

Toxins, Testing and Remedies

Industrial and environmental toxins stand to pollute the value of organic. What is clean and what does it mean? If that’s the question, what is the solution? Pursuing a supply chain consumers will always trust.

The Microbiome: A Parallel Universe

What if what we don’t know about probiotics is killing us? Don’t let the stats fool you. Probiotic sales do not reflect our potential to transform long term health. Learn what we don’t know about the microbiome and position yourselves to engage in real world solutions for the future.

Lunch and Entering the European Union

Learn how the regulatory challenges in the European Market afford strategic business opportunities.

Organic Certification at a Crossroads

O&N stands for advancement of the organic standard. Yet, the foundation of organic is eroding. Philosophical differences could compromise consumer interests. Where will this all end?

Effective Action vs. Politics – is there room for both?

4-9PM Boat Cruise and Dinner at Nervous Nellies

In the News

The Nutrient Power campaign has reached 50,000,000 americans.

Know Your Levels, Live Life Well.

Watch David Foreman, Herbal Pharmacist and O&N Scientific Advisor promote nutrientpower.org and krill and the test kit!

Dr. Christine Horner wows Cincinnati on WKRC while Karen Howard blitzes Baltimore! Check out her CBS interview.

Need a New Year's resolution? Click here to participate and learn your vitamin D and omega-3 levels.

Conversation Corner

A letter from CEO Karen Howard

The Organic & Natural Health Calendar says 2018 is the Year of the Consumer!

It’s true. There are limited federal dollars, fewer federal employees and less federal oversight. It’s true. The risk associated with less oversight can jeopardize advancements in GMP compliance for dietary supplements and the work of quality companies to shore up public confidence and a steady growth in sales. It’s true. The organic standard is at a crossroads as pressure on the supply chain threatens the integrity of imports, and technology eats at the heart of the organic soil building. It is true there is a void, and it is true consumers are filling that void. Corporate American is leaping to support the changes they demand. Here is what we want.

Transparent labeling. Think Portlandia – I want to know the name of the chicken’s farm and the chicken’s name. Is she antibiotic free, have access to the outdoors at will and eat a natural, organic diet?

Tell me you if you use GMO ingredients, and disclose all your ingredients so I can buy the box containing food.

Thank you American Grassfed Association. Are retailers supporting your seal? Because, I choose you over organic. Can’t everyone practice regenerative agriculture?

I want my food clean. I can’t figure out what all the labels mean, but I appreciate the industry’s effort. Do you test for glyphosate and other herbicides and pesticides? And are you sure all your international organic products meet the standard?

I’ve been in Washington DC for more than 34 years. Nonprofits too big to fail are mired in a battle for relevancy. Perhaps they have forgotten they need to achieve their missions and file for unemployment. Regardless, when Campbell Soup, Nestle and Mars leave the GMA, you know the consumer is in the driver seat. The 2018 consumer will not be complacent.

I have a personal commitment to doing work that honors the generations before us and serves my grandchildren’s grandchildren. So thank you for allowing me to serve the Organic & Natural Health Association. The membership and its standards are stellar. Getting to support consumer education and research on your behalf is the highlight of my day. Let’s do more of it. And let’s advocate our position from the rooftops. Your commitment to a healthy future is demonstrable. I’m really looking forward to working myself out of this job.

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