Standard Process Signs on as First Sustaining Founding Sponsor with $150,000 Contribution to FCERÌs New DCConsultSM Resource Center

Standard Process Signs on as First Sustaining Founding Sponsor with $150,000 Contribution to FCERÌs New DCConsultSM Resource Center

FCER News Release
For Immediate Release: April 16, 2008
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Standard Process, Inc.?, a Wisconsin-based manufacturer of nutritional whole food supplements and a long-time chiropractic benefactor, has become the first Sustaining Founding Sponsor of DCConsultSM, the new online clinician/patient/research resource center launched by the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER). The generous contribution is intended to help in the continuing development and expansion of this new web site, now available by subscription. This sponsorship from Standard Process is the first major financial show of corporate support for FCERÌs new Evidence-Based Resource Center (EB-RC), of which DCConsult, is the first iteration.

ÏThis major financial gift signals the reinforcement of the fast-growing support FCER is experiencing as it forges its new direction in translating evidence-based research into practice,Ó Charles R. Herring, DC, FCER President, said. ÏThis wonderful corporate contribution from a great company such as Standard Process will allow FCER to grow the new EB-RC and DCConsult, which ultimately will benefit our patients,Ó he added.

ÏStandard Process is pleased to support the FCER. We are excited to be part of emerging technology that makes it easier for health care professionals to provide patients with timely and accurate, evidence-based research on the value of chiropractic and nutritional care,Ó Charlie DuBois, Standard Process President, said.

DCConsult, is a web-based resource center that provides chiropractors and health care professionals with information to help minimize risk and foster the best possible patient care. Content includes reviews of the scientific literature indexed from over 1,000 journals related to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of common clinical conditions. Customizable patient handouts also are available at the site, www.dcconsult.com. The resource center will grow to feature special sections to address the needs of students, faculty as well as chiropractic organizations worldwide.

ÏStandard ProcessÌs regard for research and its first-hand knowledge of the price of quality research are qualities unexcelled by others,Ó Ronald C. Evans, DC, FACO, FICC, FCER Vice President, said. ÏIts founder, Dr. Royal Lee, believed in the value of scientifically researched, nutritional whole food supplements. Dr. Lee began his career as FCER was beginning its, and while our two paths may have crossed numerous times over the years, this gift is concrete evidence of our mutual respect, admiration and belief in scientific underpinnings in human health care. I believe Standard Process is representative of the highest caliber of an organization at the leading edge of meeting the need for evidence-based research,Ó he added.

For more than 75 years, Standard Process has provided health care professionals with high-quality, nutritional whole food supplements. The company is involved in every step of production, from growing crops on company-owned, organically certified farmland, to utilizing state-of-the-art manufacturing processes to employing the highest quality control standards, according to the company. Standard Process strictly adheres to the U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationÌs good manufacturing practice requirements. Its products are available only through health care professionals.

FCER is the chiropractic professionÌs oldest not-for-profit foundation, serving the profession since 1944. Based in Norwalk, Iowa, FCER has as its mission to ÏTranslate Research into PracticeÓ by granting funds for research and producing practitioner and patient educational materials including teleconferences, CDs, books and pamphlets. FCER developed the DCConsult, web site as part of its Evidence-Based Resource Center, an online source for clinical and patient education information.