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From Goleta, Vitamin Angels fights malnutrition around the world
Young children and pregnant women in underserved communities across the United States and around the world gain access to life-changing supplements through Vitamin Angels, a nonprofit headquartered in Goleta. Vitamin Angels provides vital nutrition in the forms of supplements to nutritionally vulnerable populations in need. The organization and its network of locally based field partners…
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2021 Person of the Year: Howard Schiffer, Vitamin Angels
Each year, WholeFoods Magazine recognizes an individual (or a group, as in the frontline heroes of 2020) who has made the most substantial impact on our industry over the past 12 months. In 2021, a year marked by extreme hardships for so many, members of the natural products industry stepped up and did all they…
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Vitamin Angels issues invitation for collaboration after WHO adds MMS to Model List of Essential Medicines
On October 1, the World Health Organization announced their decision to include UNIMMAP formulated multiple micronutrient supplements (UNIMMAP MMS) in their Model List of Essential Medicines (EML) as an antenatal supplement for pregnant women. This decision by the WHO marks an important milestone in advancing maternal and child health globally. The inclusion of MMS in…