CGIN

Associations and industry information

CGIN member e-newsletters

Consumer information: about food and nutrition, agricultural issues

Federal agencies

FYI: Interesting current information

HR resources

Manufacturers

Publications

Suppliers: distributors, equipment, financing, fixtures, etc.

And, a few fun places to visit

Other online resources

Associations and industry information

All Organic Links American Association of Cereal Chemists American Cheese Institute American Council on Science and Health American Egg Board American Institute of Baking American Ostrich Association American Meat Institute American Sheep Industry Association American Society of Bakery Engineers Association of Coupon Professionals Association of Dressings and Sauces Beer Institute Beyond Organic Radio Catfish Institute. Center for Science in the Public Interest .COOP registration Cooperative Development Institute Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network Dakota Worldwide – market studies Display and Design Magazine Environment News Service Environmental Working Group Environmental Working Group Food News Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN Food Co-op 500 initiative Food Distributors International Family Farmer.org Food Institute Food Marketing Institute General Merchandise Distributors Council Gourmet Retailer. Grocery Manufacturers of America Hemp Food Association. Institute of Food Technologists International Association of Food Industry Suppliers International Bottled Water Association International Cooperative Alliance Just-food.com Morning News Beat. National Association of State Departments of Agriculture National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture National Cattlemen’s Beef Association National Cooperative Business Association National Cooperative Grocers Association

National Fisheries Organization National Food Processors Association National Frozen Food Association National Grocers Association National Housewares Manufacturers Assoc. National Pasta Association National Pork Producers Council National Restaurant Association National Retail Federation National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives NCB Co-op 100 listing New Hope Institute of Retailing New Hope Natural Media North American Students of Cooperation Organic Alliance Organic Consumers Association. Organic Farming Research Foundation The Organic (O’Mama) Report Organic Materials Review Institute Organic Spot Market Organic Trade Association Organic Trader Packaged Facts Research Company Pesticide Action Network PLU code database Private Labels/Exclusive Brands Interchange Private Label Manufacturer’s Association Produce Marketing Association Retailer’s Bakery Association Reveries Magazine Sustainable Cotton Project Specialty Coffee Association of America Thomas Food Industry Registry Today’s Market Prices Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation United Plant Savers University of Wisconsin Center for Co-ops UPC check digit calculator USA Rice Federation U.S. Poultry and Egg Association Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Standards Association Wheat Foods Council Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America Wine Institute Worker Co-op Document Library

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CGIN member e-newsletters

• First Alternative Co-op – Thymes
• Harvest Co-op Markets – Harvest Times
• Honest Weight Food Co-op – Coop Scoop
• Roanoke Natural Foods Co-op – The Seed
• Viroqua Food Co-op – Pea Soup

Consumer Information

• Audubon guide to seafood
• The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
• Country of Origin Labeling
• Diet for a Small Planet/Hope’s Edge
• Gluten-Free Pantry
• Gluten-Free product listing
• Health.com
• HealthWell.com
• Local Fair Trade Network
• Meatless Monday campaign
• Midwest Food Connection
• Monterey Bay Aquarium
• Natural Foods Merchandiser
• NutraSanus
• Nutrient Data Laboratory
• Nutrition Education Websites
• Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust
• O’Mama Report
• On Health
• Pesticide avoidance wallet card
• Responsible shopper.org
• True Food Network
• Urban Legends references
• USDA nutrition analysis

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Federal and governmental agencies

• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
• DEA on status of hemp foods
• Department of Health & Human Services
• Federal Trade Commission
• Food and Drug Administration
• FDA / Center for Food Safety
• FDA / Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
• Food and Nutrition Information Center
• Food Safety and Inspection Service
• General Accounting Office
• Government Printing Office
• Minority Business Development Agency
• National Institutes of Health
• NIH – National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse
• National Food Safety Initiative
• National Health Information Center
• National Marine Fisheries
• National Organic Program
• Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Product recall information
• Social Security Administration
• USDA
• USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
• USDA Agricultural Research Service
• USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
• USDA Economics and Statistics System
• USDA Food and Consumer Service
• USDA Food Security information
• USDA Food Stamp Program
• USDA Organic Standards and Rules
• USDA School Meal Initiative
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• US House of Representatives
• US Senate
• US Trade Representative’s Office
• White House

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FYI: Interesting current information

• AlterNet.org
• Co-op 100 Report from NCB
• Co-op Development Resources
• Environment News Service
• Good News Network
• Reveries Magazine
• Straus Communications
• Truthout

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HR resources

• Department of Labor – Certification of Health Care Provider Form
• Department of Labor – Family/Medical Leave Request
• Employee Services, Inc
• Employee Turnover Statistics
• Guidance Resources
• Human Resources Software Directory
• Justifacts
• Knowledge Point
• Manpowerblogs – employement law
• Society for Human Resource Management

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Manufacturers

Abra Alacer Corporation All Terrain American Flatbread American Prairie Annie’s Homegrown Annie’s Naturals Apollo Olive Oil Atlantic Spice Company Aura Cacia Avalon Natural Products Avalon Organic Coffees Baby’s Own Organics Bach/Nelson Balance Bar Barbara’s Bakery Bascom Family Farms Bio Pac BioSuisse Blue Diamond Blue Sky Boca Burger Boiron Born Again/At Last Naturals Botanics of California Boulder Bar Bragg Live Food Products Breadshop Butternut Farms Cabot Creamery Cafe Altura Camocare Cascade Fresh Cascadian Farm Cedarlane Celentano Celestial Seasonings Chinese Way Chocolove Cholestaid CitraSolve Clif Bar Cloud Nine Coleman Natural Products Community Mill and Bean Coombs Family Farms Coyote Found Candles Crown Prince Dancing Star Farms Deep Root Diamond Herpanacine Dr. Goodpet Drews Down to Earth Earth Friendly Products Earthrise Company Earth’s Best Baby Food Eden Emerita Endangered Species Chocolate Equal Exchange Ethnic Gourmet Fantastic Foods Feather Razor Fiddlers Green Farm Fillo Factory Florida Crystals Flower Solutions Food for Life French Meadow Bakery Frontera Frontier Natural Products Co-op Functional Products Futurebiotics Garden of Eatin Gardenburger Genisoy Gepa 3 Giovanni Natural Hair Care Glad Rags Gluten-Free Pantry Goddess Garden Herbs Gold Circle Farms Good Health Grafton Village Cheese Grainaissance Great River Organic Milling Green Foods Grey Owl Health from the Sun Health Trip Hearty & Natural Helios Herbs for Kids Hero Nutritional Products Honey Garden Horizon Organics Hylands Imagine Foods Jason Natural Products Kappus Kashi Kettle Chips Kiss My Face Klamath Blue Green Knudsen, R. W. Kyolic Laci Le Beau Lifeway Lightlife Living Foods Logona Lundberg Mad Gabs Maggie’s Clean Clothes

Maharishi Ayur-Ved Maine Coast Sea Vegetables Martinelli’s Masada Mia Rose Mori-Nu Tofu Mountain Sun Muir Glen Nasoya Native Seed Search NatraCare Natrol Naturade Natural Apothecary of Vermont Natural Crystal Natural Value Naturally Fresh Nature Care Nature’s Answer Nature’s Herbs Nature’s Path Nature’s Secret Nature’s Way Nectar of Life Nelson Bach Newman’s Own Niman Ranch North Farm Cheese North Hollow Farm Now Foods Novogen Now & Zen Nylabone Once Again Nut Butter One World Teas Optimum Nutrition Organic Essentials Organic Valley Pacific Foods Pavich Family Farms PeaceWorks Petaluma Poultry Power Bar Putamayo Quantum Queene Helene Rachel Perry Rainbow Research Rainforest Crunch Rapunzel Pure Organics Reeds Ginger Brew Road’s End Organics Ryvita San Francisco Herb Company San-J Santa Barbara Olive Oil Sappo Hill Season’s Enterprises Seeds of Change Seventh Generation ShariAnn’s Shelton’s Poultry Shikai Products Sno-Pac Foods Sorrell Ridge Soyco Foods Spectrum Naturals Springfield Creamery Stash Teas Stonyfield Farm Sunergia Sunfeather SunRidge Farms Sunspire Organics Swheat Scoop Terra Texmati Thai Kitchen Thayer’s The Rubb Tiger Balm Tinkyada Tofurkey Tofutti Brands Tohom Tom’s of Maine Traditional Medicinals Tribal Tonics Trinity Springs Tropical Source Turtle Island Tuscan Sun Twinlab Uncle Matt’s Uncle Roy’s V.G. Burger Vermont Butter and Cheese Veryfine Vitamer Vitasoy Wasa Crisp Bread Weleda Westbrae White Wave Whole in the Wall Whole Soy Wholesome Foods Wisdom of the Ancients Wysong Yerba Prima Yogi Tea Yves Zand

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Publications

• Ad Age
• Brand Marketing
• Cooperative Grocer
• Convenience Store News
• Cooking Light Magazine
• Deli Business
• Epicurious
• Expansion Magazine
• Fancy Food Magazine
• Frozen Food Age Magazine
• Gourmet Retailer
• Jossey Bass
• Mother Earth News
• Natural Business
• Natural Foods Merchandiser
• North Farm Cooperative
• New York Times
• Organic and Natural News
• Prepared Foods Magazine
• Produce Merchandising
• A Primer on USDA’s National Organic Program
• Perishable Pundit
• Produce Business
• Progressive Grocer
• Supermarket Business
• Supermarket News
• Supermarket Promotions
• USA Today
• Wall Street Journal
• Whole Foods Magazine

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Suppliers

• Badger Auction equipment
• Bakers Pride
• Bar Code Specialties
• Beverage-Air
• BioCorp – biodegradable packaging
• Cambro
• Cooperative Fund of New England
• Cres-Cor
• Delfield
• Eat Local Food
• Everpure
• Fasteners For Retail
• Food Service Direct
• Food Track
• Gondola Train
• Grafe Auction
• Hobart
• Hubert
• Hussmann
• Lozier
• Magnolia River Manufacturing
• Marketing Communications – sign holders
• Mart Cart
• Masterbilt
• Merchandising Inventives
• Murcott, Inc.
• National Cooperative Bank
• NCB Development Corporation
• NCR
• New Leaf Designs
• Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund
• Olde Tyme Equipment
• The Peggs Company – shopping carts and baskets
• Reliance Private Label Supplements
• Superior Products
• Trade Fixtures
• Triangle Park Creative
• Tucson Cooperative Warehouse

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And, a few fun places to visit

• Coosemans Worldwide – Specialty Produce
• Gallery of Regrettable Food

Other online resources

• Benefit Innovations
• Catapult Cooperative Support discussion board
• CEO Express
• Claritas – market research solutions
• ESRI – GIS mapping and software
• Guide to PLU Coding for Fresh Produce
• Icicle Network
• Local Food Cooperative Software
• Organic Produce College
• UNFI Buying club listserve