NNFA Northwest Region

2000 Merit-Based Grant Awarded to Citizens for Health

At its annual planning retreat, the NNFA Northwest Region Board of Directors voted to award the Region's 2000 Merit-Based Grant to Citizens for Health. This is the third grant to be awarded to Citizens, but this grant was awarded specifically because of the work the group is doing to promote the "Keep Nature Natural" campaign. The campaign, initiated jointly by Citizens for Health, Sustain, and the Center for Food Safety, supports a petition that the groups filed in March with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking mandatory pre-market safety testing, pre-market environmental reviews and labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods.

The goal of the campaign is to flood FDA with comments so they have to take the petition seriously. The Northwest Board voted to give Citizens this grant in order to enable them to send their campaign kits to Northwest Region retailers. They decided that working through Citizens for Health was the best way to take some immediate action while NNFA is carefully evaluating the most effective action for the organization to take on a national basis. The campaign distributed fliers, posters and postcards providing background on the GE issue and information on how to comment to FDA. The kits were mailed to Northwest Region retailers in July.

Citizens for Health states that they were formed by a group of ordinary people who believed that good health is a right, not a benefit that should be determined by government or based on economic or social status. The organization now has 150 state and local chapters which play an important role in monitoring crucial legislation, regulatory activity and media reports. Citizens for Health works closely with the National Nutritional Foods Association to ensure high standards within the natural health care industry.

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