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Iowa City, Iowa (Jan. 15, 2008) — The National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), which represents 109 natural food co-ops across the nation, condemns today’s assessment by the Food and Drug Administration allowing for cloned animals into the nation’s food supply.
“NCGA fundamentally opposes the FDA’s decision, based on our core values of governing with the interests of our member stores, customers and farming partners in mind,” said Robynn Shrader, chief executive officer for NCGA. “We feel this ruling is geared toward the interests of industrial food manufacturers and marketers of genetically modified organisms, not grocery shoppers or responsible food retailers. Many of our members will be working with us to find alternative solutions to the challenges this will impose upon the supply chain.”
The National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), founded in 1999, is a business services cooperative for consumer-owned food co-ops located throughout the United States. NCGA is owned by 109 food co-ops operating more than 130 stores in 32 states with combined annual sales of over $920 million. NCGA helps unify natural food co-ops in order to optimize operational and marketing resources, strengthen purchasing power, and ultimately offer more value to natural food co-op shoppers everywhere. For a map of co-op member locations, visit www.ncga.coop/member-stores. To learn more about NCGA, click here. To learn more about co-ops visit www.gocoop.coop.
