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Vitamin Cases Consumer Settlement Fund (California)
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. |
