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Grants to Improve the Health and Nutrition of California
Consumers and Promote Competition
The deadline for Round 4 Grant Applications was November 6, 2006.
Applications are no longer being accepted.
The Vitamin Cases Consumer Settlement Fund solicited four separate
rounds of grant applications from eligible nonprofit organizations
and public agencies for grants to improve the health and nutrition
of California consumers and to promote vigorous competition to
benefit California consumers. Grants were made available as part
of an antitrust settlement with vitamin manufacturers. The lawsuit
alleged that the defendants fixed the prices for a variety of
vitamin products including A, B, C, E and H causing consumers
and businesses to pay millions of dollars more for breakfast
cereals, milk, juices, bulk vitamins, vitamin tablets and capsules,
dietary supplements and other products.
Under the settlement agreement, the funds are to be distributed
to nonprofit organizations and/or public agencies for the purpose
of improving the health and nutrition of citizens in California,
advancement of nutrition, dietary or agricultural science and
for furthering the purpose of the antitrust statute under which
the case was brought. To date, the Vitamin Cases Consumer Settlement
Fund has made 107 grants totaling over $40 million for a wide
range of projects involving food delivery to the needy, antitrust
enforcement and public policy, nutritional and health outreach,
food quality, professional education and training and nutrition
research.
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