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All information has been based on the sources referenced with a view to accuracy at time of printing, however, as is the nature of a guide such as this, changes become apparent almost immediately upon printing.

Updates to the 2010 Guide To Ethical Supermarket Shopping are listed below.
Click here for a page by page update.

For more updates (discovered between Feb 2009 and Feb 2010) click here.
For updates discovered between Feb 2008 and Feb 2009) click here.

Please send any comments or updates to info@ethical.org.au

Greenseas Tuna
17th Jul 2010 — Greenseas canned tuna (owned by Heinz) had an outstanding product star from April to July 2010, for topping the list on Greenpeace's Canned Tuna Guide. In the revised Tuna Guide they dropped to fourth place. We have removed the outstanding product star.  [source]

CSR Sugar
16th Jul 2010 — CSR's sugar division, Sucrogen, is now owned by Wilmar (foreign owned with a cross)  [source]

PETA Cruelty Free Shopping Guide
10th Jun 2010 — We have added praises to several companies for being included on PETA's Cruelty Free Shopping Guide. This changed the rating of some companies from a ~ to a full tick. Namely Bonne Bell, King of Shaves, Method, Naturopathica and Lifesource (Nads).

Seventh Generation
27th May 2010 — Seventh Generation's rating has changed from a ~ to a tick due to its outstanding palm oil policy.  [source]

National Packaging Covenant Signatories
12th May 2010 — The National Packaging Covenant has released a list of non-compliant signatories. This has changed the rating of some companies from a light tick to a ~. Namely Bevco, ET Browne, Fletchers Foods, Freedom Nutritional Products, McPherson's Consumer Products, Scott's, Snow Confectionery, Suntory Australia, Unibic, and Yakult.

The ratings for Podravka and Sunny Queen have changed from a ~ to a light tick for being NPC signatories.

Dagoba chocolate
1st May 2010 — Dagoba chocolate (made by Artisan Confections) is owned by Hershey, who have a boycott call.  [source]

Revlon
5th Mar 2010 — Revlon's rating has changed from a light tick to a cross due to its use of nanoparticles in cosmetics.   [source]

Kao Corporation
5th Feb 2010 — Kao Corporation's rating has changed from a light tick to a cross due to its animal testing policy.  [source]