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Organic

The following articles have been tagged with "Organic":

Will Bionade fizz go flat after Dr Oetker takeover?

Business & Money: 1 Feb 12
Trendy German soft drink maker Bionade could lose its cult cachet after being bought out by un-hip food giant Dr Oetker, a firm best known for cake mixes and frozen pizzas. READ »

'Trash baron' jailed for more than four years

National: 19 Jan 12
A former police officer turned businessman has been jailed for more than four years for ditching thousands of tonnes of dangerous garbage in dumps that he was being paid to decommission. READ »

Top court to decide if 'organic water' exists

National: 27 Dec 11
An ongoing legal struggle over whether the label Biomineralwasser, "organic mineral water," misleads consumers will go all the way to Germany's top court, it emerged Tuesday. READ »

Spanish sue Hamburg for E.coli cucumber warning

National: 22 Dec 11
A Spanish company is suing the city of Hamburg for more than €2 million after its cucumbers were wrongly blamed for a deadly E.coli outbreak last spring, officials said Thursday. READ »

Oniony pig farts legal, court rules

Society: 22 Dec 11
A court in the northern German town of Osnabrück has ruled that a farmer is allowed to feed his pigs vast quantities of raw onions, despite complaints from neighbours about their eye-watering gaseous emissions. READ »

A very German shopping list

Society: 22 Dec 11
Motherhood in the Fatherland follows mum Sabine Devins as she navigates the cultural quirks of having a baby in Germany. In the latest instalment, she discovers that the love for engineering starts early. READ »

Beating the holiday bag blues at Frankfurt Airport

Lifestyle: 14 Dec 11
Long lines and lost luggage make travelling during the holidays as much fun as an eggnog hangover. Caitlan Carroll spoke with the experts at Frankfurt Airport to ensure you’ll at least arrive at your destination with your bag. READ »

Italian 'organic' food fraud hits German market

Society: 8 Dec 11
Worried German organic food producers are examining their stocks after it emerged that more than 500 tonnes of cereals sold as organic was part of a multi-million-euro fraud, and the food was not organic. READ »

SAP reaches for sky with cloud computing

Business & Money: 4 Dec 11
German software giant SAP is hoping to improve its position in cloud computing with the acquisition of US web-based software company SuccessFactors. READ »

Allotments grow on urban gardening generation

Society: 14 Nov 11
More than 150 years after the idea first took root, allotments are becoming hip with a new gardening generation in Germany. READ »

Rubbish law aims to boost recycling

Business & Money: 28 Oct 11
German households should recycle even more of their rubbish following the passage of new regulations Friday by the Bundestag that aim to reduce the country’s consumption of raw materials. READ »

Designer creates clothes from milk

Science & Technology: 30 Sep 11
A Hannover microbiologist and fashion designer is releasing a new clothing line with a twist: the clothes are partly created from powdered milk - aiding skincare. READ »

Tropics project promises Bavarian bananas

Lifestyle: 20 Sep 11
Very soon, palm trees and exotic fruit will grow and flourish in a remote part of Bavaria known for its long winters. Christine Madden reports on the tropics Klein-Eden project. READ »

Sustainable sushi: Looking for another fish in the sea

Lifestyle: 6 Sep 11
Sushi might be a tasty treat, but it’s also an environmental disaster on your plate. Cinnamon Nippard reports on a German art project trying to make it from sustainable and regional sources. READ »

Urban gardening takes off at Berlin's fabled airport Tempelhof

Society: 29 Aug 11
It's sunflowers instead of planes and kale instead of kerosene at the German capital's legendary Tempelhof Airport, site of the Berlin Airlift and now home to one of Europe's biggest urban gardens. AFP’s Deborah Cole reports. READ »

Canine detectives show promise in sniffing out lung cancer

Science & Technology: 18 Aug 11
Rather than the chill of a stethoscope or a cold hand, cancer screening patients could be steeling themselves for with a wet nose after German scientists published a study showing dogs can detect lung cancer. READ »

Shit hits the fans at Bundesliga match

Sport: 16 Aug 11
Bundesliga matches took bizarre and unappetising turns at the weekend, with a Hoffenheim employee blasting Borussia supporters with a high-pitched siren – and Cologne fans showering their Schalke rivals with faeces and urine. READ »

Germany's last millstone mason gets busier

National: 6 Aug 11
An organic food boom in Germany is creating demand for flour ground the old way, but the country only has one person left with the skills needed to carve and maintain millstones. READ »

E. coli crisis hit discounters hardest

National: 30 Jul 11
Germany's deadly E. coli crisis in May and June hit sales at the country's big discount grocery chains the hardest, according to a new study. Organic food shops actually benefited from the outbreak at first. READ »

What's on in Germany: July 7 - July 13

Lifestyle: 7 Jul 11
This Week's Highlights: Museum night in Dresden, Snoop Dogg in Hamburg, and a fashion show in Berlin. READ »

E. coli may have had Egyptian origins

National: 30 Jun 11
Fenugreek seeds exported from Egypt to France and Germany may have caused an E. coli outbreak that has killed 48 people in Europe, the European Food Safety Authority reported. READ »

Two-year-old boy dies from E. coli

National: 14 Jun 11
The German authorities on Tuesday said a two-year-old boy became the first child to die in an outbreak of a virulent strain of E. coli bacteria, taking the death toll to at least 37. READ »

E. coli patients may need kidney transplants

National: 12 Jun 11
Karl Lauterbach, health spokesman for the opposition Social Democrats, has warned that some of those who have fallen ill in the E. coli epidemic could face severe health problems. READ »

Farm behind E. coli not likely to face prosecution

National: 11 Jun 11
German officials say that the likely source of the deadly E. coli epidemic, a vegetable sprout farm in Lower Saxony, will probably not face criminal prosecution. READ »

Deadly E. coli found on bean sprouts

National: 10 Jun 11
German officials on Friday said they had found the first direct evidence of deadly E. coli bacteria on vegetable sprouts thought to have killed 33 people and left over 3,000 ill. READ »

E. coli death toll hits 30

National: 9 Jun 11
The death toll from an outbreak of killer bacteria centred on Germany jumped to at least 30 on Thursday, as EU and Russian leaders got ready to cross swords over Moscow's ban on EU vegetables. READ »

E. coli panic hits Lübeck hard

Society: 8 Jun 11
Germany's killer bacteria outbreak has people running scared in the northern city of Lübeck, where restaurants are empty and vegetables, blamed for the contamination, are withering away at market stalls. READ »

Bumbling E. coli investigation embarrasses German officials

National: 7 Jun 11
After mistakenly blaming Spanish cucumbers and organic sprouts for a deadly E. coli outbreak, criticism of the German authorities is mounting. The Local looks at who’s handling the health crisis. READ »

E. coli infection figures stabilising

National: 3 Jun 11
The E. coli outbreak that has killed at least 18 people appears to be stabilising, a senior German doctor said on Friday, as police investigated two food distributors and a restaurant owner in Hamburg. READ »

Tasting sweet success with Peaches

Lifestyle: 3 Jun 11
The Local’s series “Making it in Germany” presents Peaches, a Canadian musician and performance artist who has rocked Berlin like few others. She spoke with Nadja Sayej. READ »

Hunt for source of deadly E. coli source continues

National: 29 May 11
Germany warned Sunday that the source of an outbreak of bacteria poisoning blamed for 10 deaths and hundreds of people falling ill, some in other countries, has yet to be pinpointed. READ »

Media roundup: The contagious madness of E. coli

Analysis & Opinion: 27 May 11
Another 60 people in Germany fell ill overnight Friday to E. coli bacteria. Roughly 82 million woke up feeling fine. Newspapers in The Local's media roundup ask whether the reaction to the latest food scare is rational. READ »

Deadly E. coli found in Spanish cucumbers

National: 26 May 11
Cucumbers from Spain have been identified as a source of the deadly E. coli outbreak gripping Germany, health officials announced Thursday. READ »

Can 'elite' Kitas fill Germany's day-care gap?

Education: 23 May 11
As Germany struggles to expand public day care, the market for private Kitas has boomed in recent years. Chris Cottrell takes a look at the controversial phenomenon of the “elite” crèche. READ »

Scientists invent packaging able to detect bad food

Science & Technology: 4 May 11
German scientists have developed a special plastic film that changes colour in contact with rotting food, possibly soon making bad meat or fish from the supermarket a thing of the past. READ »

Engineers make cycling even greener

Science & Technology: 20 Apr 11
Cycling has always been considered a green form of transportation, but as Alexander Bakst reports, German engineers are hoping to make “organic” bikes from sustainable materials more popular. READ »

The best of Berlin in April

Lifestyle: 14 Apr 11
Exberliner, Berlin’s leading English-language magazine, spends April watching some skater girl action, discovers a hip Neukölln bar, finds new ways to get pampered plus gives a run-down of the best wholesome Easter weekend fun. READ »

McDonald's hiring after digesting record sales

Business & Money: 22 Feb 11
Germans appear to be hungrier for McDonald's burgers than ever before, pushing the fast food chain to record sales in 2010 and prompting 2,000 new hirings this year. READ »

'Ethical' banks booming

Business & Money: 15 Feb 11
Morality and money aren’t always compatible, but a new breed of "ethical" banks in Germany are building a successful new business model that is showing they can be. READ »

'It will be cacophony or a huge success'

Lifestyle: 1 Feb 11
As Berlin’s annual transmediale festival exploring the relationship between culture and technology kicked off this week, The Local chatted with participant and “open design” proponent Jay Cousins for an inside look. READ »

China bans pork, eggs as dioxin scandal grows

National: 12 Jan 11
Germany's dioxin contamination problems deepened Wednesday as China banned pork and egg imports and it emerged that tainted meat may be in circulation. READ »

Organic food demand soars amid dioxin scare

Lifestyle: 12 Jan 11
As the dioxin scare continues in Germany, consumers are storming organic supermarkets, clearing the shelves of eggs and pork products. But experts say the country’s organic food sector is unlikely to keep up with the new demand. READ »

High levels of dioxin found in German pork

National: 11 Jan 11
German authorities Tuesday ordered the slaughter of hundreds of pigs after finding high levels of dioxin in pork for the first time since shutting down thousands of farms for tests last week. READ »

Dioxin-scanning egg app cracks the market

Science & Technology: 10 Jan 11
As Germany grapples with a food scandal that has forced thousands of farms to halt sales, one technology firm has come up with an enterprising way to pick out the bad eggs at the supermarket with a smartphone app. READ »

Dioxin scandal spreads

National: 5 Jan 11
Some 3,000 tonnes of dioxin-contaminated fatty acids used to enrich animal feed have been distributed in at least four German states, according to official estimates. The authorities are shutting down more farms as a precaution. READ »

Brewing up a cup of beneficence

Lifestyle: 9 Dec 10
Three entrepreneurs have brought the single-source coffee movement to Germany, directly connecting customers to an Ethiopian community producing their gourmet beans. READ »

The Best of Berlin in December

Society: 7 Dec 10
Exberliner, Berlin’s leading English-language magazine, in December tells you where to get your Glühwein on, hits the ice rink, and tries to be charitable for the holidays. READ »

Merkel 'pours cold water' on Putin's vision of free trade zone

Business & Money: 25 Nov 10
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday talked down the chances of a Russia-EU free trade zone, citing Russian tariffs and Moscow's trade relations with Kazakhstan and Belarus. READ »

Finding peace in Westphalia

Travel: 3 Nov 10
Named after a mediaeval monastery, the northwestern German city of Münster is religious about its cultural heritage. But Olivia Hambrett finds more than just a fusty collection of pretty churches. READ »

The Best of Berlin in October

Lifestyle: 12 Oct 10
Exberliner, Berlin's leading English-language magazine, in October celebrates Haus Schwarzenberg’s 15th birthday, gets it's 15 minutes of DJing fame, and still has time for coffee and cake in Kreuzkölln. READ »

What's on in Germany: September 16 - 22

Lifestyle: 16 Sep 10
This week's highlights: Kate Nash plays Munich, Berlin celebrates children, and a festival of culture dances into Düsseldorf. READ »

Bavaria mourns adored Green party figure after double tragedy

Politics: 18 Aug 10
Tributes flowed on Wednesday for the widely admired Bavarian Green party politician Sepp Daxenberger, who died of cancer during the night, just three days after his wife succumbed to the same illness. READ »

Consumer watchdog slams Amazon's new grocery service

Business & Money: 9 Aug 10
Amazon.de’s new grocery delivery service needs a bit of fine tuning, according to test results released by consumer watchdog Stiftung Warentest on Monday. READ »

Reclusive billionaire co-founder of discount chain Aldi dies at 88

Business & Money: 28 Jul 10
Theo Albrecht, the billionaire co-founder of budget supermarket empire Aldi, last seen in public after his release from kidnap nearly 40 years ago, has died at age 88, the firm said Wednesday. READ »

Illegal pesticides found on German produce

National: 26 Jul 10
Illegal pesticides have been found on German-grown berries sold in the nation’s supermarkets, environmental protection organisation Greenpeace said on Monday. READ »

Fashion goes green in Berlin

Lifestyle: 12 Jul 10
Berlin might not be able to compete with fashion centres like Paris, London and New York, but as Emma Duester reports, some at the city’s Fashion Week are hoping to make the industry a little bit greener. READ »

Amazon begins selling groceries in Germany

Business & Money: 1 Jul 10
Online retailer Amazon began selling food on its German website Thursday, offering some 35,000 different products including vegetables, meat, fish, baked goods, deli items and regional specialties. READ »

Morning sickness? There's a tea for that

Lifestyle: 30 Jun 10
Giving birth while living abroad can be a daunting prospect. The Local's series Motherhood in the Fatherland follows expectant mum Sabine Devins as she negotiates the cultural quirks of having a baby in Germany. READ »

The Best of Berlin in June

Society: 18 Jun 10
Exberliner, Berlin's leading English-language magazine, in June heads to a hipster Kreuz-Kölln flea market, goes upmarket in Mitte, and crashes in a jailhouse bed. READ »

Organic food neither healthier nor tastier, watchdog finds

Society: 27 May 10
Organic food, widely assumed to be healthier than conventional groceries, usually have no nutritional advantage at all, according to a comprehensive study released Thursday by German consumer organisation Stiftung Warentest. READ »

The Best of Berlin in March

Lifestyle: 8 Mar 10
This month Exberliner, Berlin's leading English-language magazine, tells you where to get your fix for quality hot sauces and chocolates. READ »

The Local’s best bets for the Berlinale

Lifestyle: 11 Feb 10
With almost 400 films and countless other events accompanying this year’s Berlinale, choosing what to see can be a daunting task. Fortunately, The Local has sifted out a sampling of the festival’s most interesting offerings. READ »