PITTSBURGH, PA — (Marketwire) — 03/23/12 — Through sales of saw palmetto extract for prostate health, Euromed USA (euromedusa.com) and its customers recently donated $10,000 to the non-profit Everglades Foundation, which is working to conserve and restore the fragile damaged “River of Grass.”
“Older gentlemen all over the world rely on saw palmetto to keep their prostates healthy, and saw palmetto comes from just one place in the world — Florida,” says Euromed president and general manager Joe Veilleux, a registered pharmacist.
“The Everglades in South Florida is a fascinating environment that has sustained a lot of damage from humans,” he says. “We chose it as our mission because we want to raise awareness about its value as a national treasure. We chose the Everglades Foundation because it does a fantastic job — it–s a very large, very well-organized group.”
Euromed–s Glade-iator program, , which launched last year, makes a donation to the Everglades Foundation in the purchaser–s name every time a customer buys its saw palmetto extract. The customers — large companies that produce pharmaceutical products and nutritional supplements — are also encouraged to become Glade-iator–s official partners and raise awareness with promotional materials provided by Euromed. Those partners now include GNC, Gaia Herbs and Tishcon, among others.
“Our customers have been enthusiastic about this program,” Veilleux says. “They see it as an unusual situation where business interests and the environmental interests all line up.”
The Everglades Foundation is also enthusiastic. The 19-year-old organization conducts scientific research, helps fund work that benefits the unique ecosystem, and supports legal actions to protect it.
“Contributions like the one from Euromed will propel our restoration and preservation efforts in the coming year,” says Susan Ervin, the foundation–s vice president for development. “Our board covers 100 percent of our administration and fundraising costs, so all donations go directly to science and conservation.”
The Everglades is home to about 20,000 acres of saw palmetto. Euromed harvests the berries using sustainable methods that don–t damage the mother plant. The berries contain free fatty acid and sterols that help patients with the bothersome effects of benign prostate enlargement (BPH), a common problem for men over 40.
Euromed USA supplies standardized botanical and herbal extracts and natural active substances for use in the pharmaceutical, health food and cosmetics industries. By extracting the necessary chemicals, the company can guarantee its products meet the precise chemical specifications necessary.
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