Vitamin Angel Alliance has now collected over 12 million vitamin supplements in their effort to supply the nutritional component of the Katrina Relief effort. Working with a consortium of companies in the Natural Products and Pharmaceutical industries, Vitamin Angels is now shipping product into their Texas warehouse and distributing supplements throughout the Gulf States.
Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) September 22, 2005 -- Vitamin Angel Alliance has now collected over 12 million vitamin supplements in their effort to supply the nutritional component of the Katrina Relief effort. Working with a consortium of companies in the Natural Products and Pharmaceutical industries, Vitamin Angels is now shipping product into their Texas warehouse and distributing supplements throughout the Gulf States.
"We now have authorization from The Department of Homeland Security to ship to all states the region," said Howard B. Schiffer, Vitamin Angel Alliance President, "We've had supplements shipped to the FEMA Specialty Needs Centers in Louisiana and have now opened up distribution points in Jackson, Mississippi; Slidell Louisiana; Houston, Texas; Pearl, Mississippi; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana." Vitamins Angels has also initiated contacts to help set up shipments for the emergency personnel and relief workers who are helping deal with the aftermath from Katrina.
"The response for the natural products industry has been outstanding" reported Schiffer, "It's important to remember that this is going to be a long-term relief effort. We're going to need about 20 million supplements to get these people through the next 6 months."
To date pledges and donations have been received from Arizona Nutritional Supplements; Earth Power Inc.; Florida Distributors, General Nutrition Centers, GNLD International; Healthy Horizons and Diamond Herpanacine Associates, Hero Nutritional Products; Highland Laboratories; Mason Vitamins; Nordic Naturals; NOW Foods; Nutri-Force Nutrition; Nutrilite; Pharmachem Laboratories; Pharmanex; PL Development; Pro Health; Rainbow Light Nutritonal Systems; Swiss Medica; Tishcon; Twinlab and Vitatech International.
Vitamin Angel Alliance is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization dedicated to providing basic nutrition and fighting vitamin A deficiency childhood blindness around the world since 1994. Last year Vitamin Angels donated 23.4 million supplements to people in need in 40 countries around the world.
"The first response when we saw those horrific photos was I'm so sorry for what happened to these people," Schiffer observed. He continued; "The next response was, Well let's do something about it!"
For more information, visit www.vitaminangel.org
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