Business / Legal
- What do we need to do about CRV?
- Can I repackage items such as laundry soap without running into legal problems? What are the repacking restrictions? What are the requirements for labeling products that we breakdown and repackage (especially packages marked ‘Not for resale’)?
- What are the requirements for labeling products that we manufacture such as the cereal mix? Do they change if the product is purchased through a membership or as a subscription service?
- Are the labeling and packaging regulations different if the kits are offered through a cooperative? Or as a private (non-retail) subscription service?
- If packing only prepackaged products, are there contamination issues if some of the items contain allergens such as peanuts or wheat?
Ingredient
- What are ramón seeds?
Health Impact
- What’s the difference between meats cured with sodium nitrate and/or sodium nitrite and meats cured with celery powder and salt which have naturally occurring nitrates (per Volume 7 2015 of Trader Joe’s Fearless Flyer)?
- What’s the health impact of smoke flavorings?
- What’s the advantage of alkaline water (water that has a pH of over 9.5 – as compared to neutral water’s pH of 7)? What’s the advantage of drinking electrolytes?
- Immodium AD – to what extent does it impede diarrhea recovery?
- Does eating dark chocolate typically cause you to sneeze? yes 1%, no 92%, not sure 6%.
Body Care
- Clothesline or dental floss to replace broken shoelaces?
- At what point do items in toiletry and makeup kits go bad (get rancid) and/or lose potency?
Travel Aids
- Weather Web sites
- Passport, visa, pre-TSA check, Quick Check
Media Outlets
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Social media marketing; back office service integration (ex. linking CRM, accounting, and e-commerce services); transitioning from cottage / craft producer to commercial; legal issues associated with labeling, marketing, retail aggregation (market baskets), CRV, intellectual property, and resale; and manufacturing options. Taxes.